What we the agents of Parliament are working on is to try to see how this pilot project of a parliamentary panel can move from being a temporary measure to becoming a permanent parliamentary mechanism to deal with funding requests from agents of Parliament.
We've had a report done by William Corbett, the former Clerk of the House, who has done an assessment of our views of the successes and limitations of the approach so far. Sheila Fraser, who is taking the lead on this, has written Minister Toews, hoping this can move forward. In March, Minister Toews wrote to us, saying that this is under consideration.
But we're also discussing looking specifically at Treasury Board, Public Service Commission, and Canada Public Service Agency policies that have a potential impact on our independence. The Auditor General's office came up with a list of some 200 policies that potentially might. We've narrowed those down to 26 to 27. So we are continuing the discussion with Treasury Board about those policies that we feel are potentially a threat to our independence.