Well, thank you for your clarity. I don't think anything could be clearer. We have to get on with it.
You're right, Madam Fraser, I sat on another committee when accrual accounting was once again discussed, and you expanded upon the virtues. We have seen so many examples where we have to have some form of consistency in our accounting procedures. So I would hope this committee would take a very serious look at this matter, because the information we are going to report--and for this government the importance of the Auditor General's report--has to be accurate in its finance and has to be consistent in its delivery. Unless we have one consistent method of reporting and managing our functions, it's not going to work.
So thank you very kindly, Madam Fraser, for the recommendation on this. I would hope this committee would take a very serious look at seeing if we can come up with some form of recommendation so we could have some enforcement procedures for this kind of process.
I would like to go back, if I could, to 800 Place Victoria. It's a sad example.
Mr. Marshall, you gave a reason why the client changed their mind, or changed their direction, or changed their thought. Quite honestly, it sounds like a cop-out. It looks as though we've had some interference in this bidding process or in this tendering process. I hope I'm wrong, but that's just what I would read from this.
Can you give me the name of the individual who made this decision to go ahead and waste $4.6 million by double-tendering a process? Who is responsible for this, so we could look further into this?