In our case, it's unique. The Auditor General Act sets out that I can set the terms and conditions for all employees who work for my office, except when they are represented by a bargaining agent. Then, we receive our mandate from the President of the Treasury Board. That mandate is similar to the mandate any other department would receive. It sets what I'll call the fence around what we can negotiate in either monetary or non-monetary elements of compensation.
As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I can't use my funding to make that a larger fence. I have to work within the same parameters as every other department in the government.