Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will share some of my time with Mr. Lawrence.
Thank you for being here. I always enjoy your perspective on these matters.
I want to ask you about the $14.2 billion. One of the functions of your office is to ensure that the government is being transparent with Canadians when it comes to the allocation of their tax dollars. We had the finance minister in here just a few minutes ago; you were in the room. I asked her about this, and she said something like we need to look around the corner. I asked her if she would table details of this spending, and she would not agree to do that.
Are you concerned? With $14.2 billion—I sometimes think we get immune to these numbers when we hear about $500-billion deficits and $1.2 trillion in debt, but $14.2 billion is big chunk of change.
Are you concerned and have you made these concerns known to the government that they are not being nearly as transparent as they should be with this kind of spending?