So your priority would be to ensure that there's an independent funding mechanism, just so we get away from the idea of an officer of Parliament having to go cap in hand to the very government that he or she is going to audit and ask for his or her budget.
How important are these performance audits? Right now, this committee will have very little to do if performance audits have to be suspended. I think that these reports are incredibly important to Canadians. How important are performance audits?