Government Operations committee  Typically, the two processes have been separate, and the bill can go forward for second reading before an observation or a decision is required for the speaker regarding whether it requires a royal recommendation. The PBO cost estimate is usually tabled and published on the website in advance of that.

Government Operations committee  I think the safe thing to say is since we've published that report, there has really been no material change with respect to the rapprochement we have with the public service around information access.

Government Operations committee  Well....

Government Operations committee  For us, there remain the perennial challenges of working with National Defence. As well, there are ongoing challenges working with other central agencies around various types of budgetary requests as well. As Jean-Denis has mentioned, it's a recurring theme in our office that we are trying to negotiate memorandums of understanding with various government departments and agencies.

Government Operations committee  Yes, that's correct.

Government Operations committee  Thanks, Jean-Denis. Looking at the coming fiscal year, the 2018-19 interim estimates identify a funding request of $2.9 million for our office, which is the initial proposed allocation out of a total budgetary request that you're going to be seeing in the main estimates of about $7.6 million for the coming fiscal year.

Government Operations committee  As mentioned in Jean-Denis' presentation—

Government Operations committee  The other thing I'll mention is that on our website our office has published a detailed business case that we submitted to the speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate last year. The analysis underpinning this business case is based upon the experiences of other independent fiscal institutions and the best practices identified by the OECD and IMF.