You say 2009. When I arrived here, Mr. Chair, this was already on the table. We were looking at this new modern technology, and we were going to get cascading financial statements, so that programs would have their own financial statements; a department would consolidate all its programs into a departmental financial statement, which would then be consolidated into a financial statement for the Government of Canada, and, like the private sector, all done in the first fifteen days of the month.
I think this policy was announced in 1989, and now, within twenty years, they just might get halfway there, Mr. Chair. Why doesn't the Treasury Board move things along a lot faster if they're the manager of government?