That's right, so seven of them happened under the previous Liberal government. So when my colleague uses the term “unprecedented”, he uses it with a great deal of agility. That's the first thing to point out.
Secondly, Minister, I appreciate that the instant you became minister responsible for the Treasury Board, you hit the ground sprinting on implementing the Federal Accountability Act. I note with some interest that a lot of the people who did everything in their power to block the Federal Accountability Act and attack it as going too far are now in a mad rush to see it implemented immediately. I further note that if they had allowed it to pass through the Senate without the extraordinary delay it experienced there, we would be much further along toward complete implementation. So I want to congratulate you for taking up the torch and working as hard as you have been to implement that.
I guess my question for you is, how can we as parliamentarians assist in the implementation of the Federal Accountability Act?