Excellent. I would like to deal with the presentation of Professional Institute of the Public Service, PIPS, somewhat.
I want to thank you for bringing to the attention of committee that nowhere is there any empirical evidence that this frenzy to privatize everything they can possibly lay their finger on is financially prudent. You point out that the Auditor General herself was denied the information to do an analysis on managing contracts to the private sector. She was told to go and file an access to information request, and that was held from her.
This is not common knowledge, I don't think. We argue that the whole frenzy to deregulate and privatize and outsource and less government is so last century. This is really a neo-conservative ideology that has been disproved and is partly responsible for the financial disaster we see ourselves in. This urge to deregulate everything has brought us into the economic crisis we are in today. I want to thank you for bringing that to the attention of the committee and for giving me the opportunity to comment on it.
Would you expand on that? What is the institute doing to perhaps comment further on that, or provide some empirical evidence as to the veracity of their claims that they are saving money?