I think you're absolutely right. I think, though, we should recognize that these projects are brought in to improve services and programs to Canadians. Government does have to invest in technology. We see the private sector investing significant sums of money in technology in order to improve their business practices; government has to do the same.
There will continue to be large investments in IT because they tend to enable a lot of these improvement processes. If government does not manage them well, obviously they will overspend. Projects could go off the rails, but perhaps more importantly, they will not have improved their services and their business practices.
They have to get much better at doing this. We need to be aware of those risks and we need to make sure they have good business planning in place. The committee could certainly help in that, if they do go to the accrual accounting, by having regular discussions with them to ask what their plan is, where they are in it, and what risks and difficulties they are seeing, because this will be a project over several years as well.