Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Page and colleagues.
I'd first like to comment very briefly that we in the Liberal Party support your work very strongly, and we will do what we can to ensure that your budget is restored to the $2.7 million a year that had been committed. It's not clear that the combined opposition can force that to happen, but our position is that we will seek to get a motion through the library committee requesting the government to increase the estimates in such a way that your budget promise is adhered to.
My first question is in terms of parliamentary scrutiny. As you may know, we in the Liberal Party have our own website now, onProbation.ca, but one thing we cannot do is monitor the extent to which the government gets the money out the door in the way it has promised to do on infrastructure and on Business Development Bank lending, for example, among other things. I don't see how outside groups, such as an opposition party or outside economists, can do that.
Would it be your intention to obtain that kind of information from government departments, such as Treasury Board, infrastructure, and so on? Have you spoken to government departments as to whether they would cooperate with you in providing such information? If so, what has been the nature of their response?