That is an excellent question from the good doctor, and I welcome her to this chamber. We've not had an opportunity to meet personally, but I'm familiar with her work from before we got here.
I was illustrating some of the examples of when plain language reporting, which is what we're striving for in this subamendment, has been used and providing an illustration of other things that we could do, as parliamentarians, in this. I wish that this actuarial report.... Again, I know it needs to get to the meat and the substance, which is, as an example, what I'm doing in my remarks here today. It needs to get to the meat and substance. It needs to give us the information. It shouldn't be sugar-coating or glossing over things.
The whole point of what we're trying to get at here is that I believe these reports on the state of Canadians' pension funds, which, again, are sacrosanct for a lot of working-class Canadians—the people we serve—should be written and drafted and submitted to Parliament in a way that could be as easily understood as some of the other reports that we've put plain language expectations into. That was where we were talking about the former interim PBO, Mr. Jason Jacques, as well as the Office of the Auditor General. We see other departments and commissioners that have done this as well. I recall—well, no, I don't want to get another point of order, so I'll share that later.
What we're trying to do here is ensure, with Mr. Jackson's subamendment, that this report, which yesterday.... One of the chief opposition points that was given by some of my Liberal colleagues was that we already have reporting requirements. They're not objecting fundamentally to the idea of reports and the idea of reporting. What they're doing is inexplicably objecting to us trying to ensure more transparency and a more predictable timeline on that, which is what the initial amendment was doing. I think as far as the subamendment is concerned, we're just saying, “Let's make sure these people can read these.” We want to make sure that these documents are being put forward in such a way that they serve the interests of Canadians, they do not obfuscate and they actually communicate something instead of using—