Very good. I do like having the last word, especially with Mr. Warkentin in the room.
Let me start by saying, and maybe even reminding committee members and witnesses, that we're the government operations and estimates committee of the House of Commons. As such, it's our obligation to challenge the veracity of proposed government spending to test whether it will in fact achieve what it promises to achieve. So when the Government of Canada overspends the budget and spends us into deficit by billions and billions of dollars, it's entirely appropriate for us to be challenging the veracity of that spending, whether it will in fact achieve what it set out to achieve. But they've made it very difficult. As members of Parliament and members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, it's strange that we should be relying on you to bring information to us because we can't find out, neither for love nor money, where the spending has taken place. We get rationed little tidbits of information in a lippy sort of backhanded way from junior rookie MPs, backbenchers. We find out little tidbits of information instead of a complete list.