Essentially, yes, I agree. I think the recommendations we're making are very simple ways of building in private contracts into the powers of the Auditor General. That's one piece. I'll just say that I agree, there is a trend--and it goes far beyond Canada Post in terms of public sector institutions, crown corporations, and so on--towards privatization. This legislation is a manifestation of that, with the changing powers of the Auditor General, public disclosure legislation changes, and the procurement auditor all prejudiced against going with the public sector because it's added bureaucracy and scrutiny for public sector institutions and non-profits, while on the other hand there's a clear absence of anything on private contracts, which the government is increasingly engaging in for the procurement of services and also buildings.
On May 30th, 2006. See this statement in context.