I see you're under the false impression that there is favouritism given. I don't think so.
Thank you very much for appearing, Mr. Côté. It's been extremely interesting to listen.
I'm a little bit confused, and you may be able to help me. On one thing, by the way, Mr. Perron beat me to the punch, because I was going to ask you the same thing: what would be your rough guess as a cost estimate? So you're saying it's $6.5 million for the defence ombudsman, and that's with 50 staff. Do you think that would be in the ballpark? That's the first question about the veterans ombudsman.
The second part is that ministerial directives indicate that your reports concerning investigations can be published 28 days after they have been submitted to the Minister of National Defence. Do you have to notify the minister about exactly when a report concerning investigations will be made public, or does your office determine independently when this will be done? I ask that question because in paragraph 27(g) you say that one of the things you believe should be part of this is the “full ability to make findings and reports public without having to obtain any type of prior authorization”.
I'm sorry, those are a lot of questions.