My point is about a measure of consistency. You have to have one system or another. If you're going to have conflicting systems of accounting, conflicting systems of money management, you can't properly evaluate the effectiveness of the system unless there's some form of consistency. I honestly believe we should either go one direction or the other. You can't take an expenditure of a building for x amount of millions or billions of dollars and decide you're going to expense it in year 14 when expenses are ongoing all the way through. I find it totally not acceptable that all of a sudden we can't have some form of consistency. When I see a reluctance to do that, I really want to know if it is coming from your department or from Treasury Board.
On June 1st, 2006. See this statement in context.