I don't think it has been blissfully ignored. As the Auditor General has said, this is a complex issue. It's been under study for eight years, and so on.
There are different players around the table. If we prepare financial information for a certain purpose on a certain basis, it also must meet the needs of the users. If we go to the estimates on the accrual basis, it also means that Parliament will be focusing its attention on the use of resources and not only the use of cash. So far, to a large extent, the signal has been on the cash, or near-cash, or near-accrual. I do support the view that we are custodians of all the resources of the Government of Canada: cash, liabilities, the long-term and short-term assets—not only cash. It also means that members of Parliament have to focus their attention on the full use of the assets and liabilities of the Government of Canada.