All right, so the minister doesn't have an answer to that question either.
Mr. Chair, yesterday the minister wrongly suggested that the Harper government had cut the Auditor General's budget. In fact, the previous Auditor General voluntarily reduced his budget as part of his efforts to help reduce the deficit in that time. He said he could meet all of his auditing requirements with the budget he had.
By contrast, today's Auditor General has said the opposite, that he doesn't have enough money to do the work before him.
Will the minister—yes or no, yes or no—provide the Auditor General with the funds he has asked for so that his office, and the office of his soon-to-be successor, can properly audit all the spending of the Government of Canada?
Again, a simple yes or no will do.