Well, Mr. Chair, I think there will be issues and it is important that we see more transparency. Mr. Speer has raised this with the issue of potentially deconstructing budgets, looking at current versus capital budgets. On the operational side of government, I think there is a lot spending restraint going on. We are not seeing the details, but tend to get them through newspaper clippings—this morning on CF-18's, and other issues on veterans, which Mr. Oberg talked about. I think Parliament should have seen these five-year spending plans and scrutinized them. We don't know to what extent there is fiscal risk—of what spending pressures we are kicking down the road. So I think in that sense we need to be careful going forward while some of these spending pressures need to be dealt with. Are we being honest with Canadians with respect to service levels?
On September 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.