I can perhaps start, Madam Chair.
I think the first thing that would be really important is to have a clear indication and a clear statement that government is going this way. We're talking about studies still. I have yet to hear that government has actually agreed that they are going to move to accrual appropriations, and the form has to be worked out. I would think this has to come from a very senior political level.
When the government moved to accrual-based financial statements, there was actually a statement in the budget on that. So I would think that given the importance of this, there should be some statement from a very senior political level that government is working that way, or planning to go that way, and that it's an intention to put it in over a certain number of years.
And perhaps the committee can obviously recommend the higher-level direction that the votes could take. I think the suggestion that was made today about setting up a working group of parliamentarians who perhaps have a particular interest to work through the details of this is a good suggestion. And then I think once that's mapped out, obviously it will require resources within the Treasury Board Secretariat or the Comptroller General, and they would have to obviously define how they would want to move that project.
But there should be a specific project. This is going to be an important project that will take many years. I think there should be a specific responsibility given and clearly resources given as well.