Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I echo my colleagues' welcome to you here today. Congratulations, Mr. Leblanc.
It certainly is a pleasure to have you at the committee. As a fairly new parliamentarian, I think it's important to note it was this government's first bill after being elected that made key improvements to this office since it came into force in July 2008. To put it in context, as an independent commissioner of lobbying, your mandate is to investigate violations under the new Lobbying Act and lobbyists' code of conduct, and that now includes over a million dollars for investigations that would not have been possible under the previous Liberal government.
With respect to the estimates, this process allows us to monitor the expenditures of government departments, agencies, and offices of Parliament, and in reviewing them, I notice your projected spending chart on page 9 of the RPP shows the office resource requirements as fairly stable over the next three fiscal years. Can you anticipate anything that might change this projection? How do you project out that far?