Thank you.
I think Mr. Alghabra asked some good questions, and I'd like to follow up on them.
What I don't understand is how amortization can be the subject of a vote, because amortization is not a choice. It happens; assets get old and die. There is nothing that, as parliamentarians, we can vote to change. So it makes sense to me that if you're going to amortize, and you're going to move to accrual accounting, you would have that booked statutorily.
The only argument against this is that some assets might amortize more quickly, because if Public Works buys a bus and the bus drives into the Ottawa River, it's gone. Is it not reasonable in those situations to leave some discretion to our officials, who come under the watchful eye of Ms. Fraser and of our Comptroller General, to accelerate amortization where exceptional circumstances warrant, and assume that other amortization is just statutory?
What are your thoughts on that?