The example of that $2 billion is one I use with my colleagues very often to try to crystallize the issue here. It's in the books. We record it in the books as a statutory liability of the Government of Canada; however, as the Auditor General mentioned, the money to pay for it has not been allocated, because it's a decision of our parliamentarians to say this year we have $10 million for this, or $10 million for Afghanistan. This is your decision.
So if we were moving to accrual-based appropriations, the moment that liability now gets recorded against an appropriation, we don't need you, we have to pay it, which I don't think is where members of Parliament would like to go.