Mr. Chairman, I would say, first of all, that I wasn't intending to brag. It was announced that the coast guard would become a special operating agency in 2003. The authorities from Treasury Board to make that a reality came into effect in April 2005. The Auditor General's office was quite correct in saying that when they went back and looked, in the course of their work, at the implementation plan, there were a number of very significant things that had not yet been implemented. Those things are the key items that are referred to in our business plan as some of the key priorities, and we put focus and resources on completing those items to make the special operating agency a reality.
Regarding the specific things that were not completed when the Auditor General looked at them--and which are now completed--we have now set up the advisory boards with both internal and external clients. We have launched a comprehensive review of our levels of service involving the clients. We have worked with Treasury Board to get some of the additional authorities and flexibilities that were envisioned as being part of a special operating status. Two of the most significant that we've received are a grouping and a new authority for how we do our refit. I won't get into the details of that, but it is enormously significant. The second is a new capital carry-forward authority that gives us much more flexibility in managing multi-year capital projects. So that actually became very high priority, and we've actually completed the vast majority of those things that the Auditor General found were not in place when they conducted their study.