Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good day to all.
This is a bit disturbing to me. It's a simple situation. I sat on the public accounts committee last term when we made the recommendation unanimously in committee to accept and endorse the principles and the progress of accrual accounting.
Once again, with no disrespect to Mr. Moloney, this almost reminds me of a Mark Twain quote: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics.”
No personal reflection, sir, but you seemed to be drawing out reasons why not to implement accrual accounting. And I ask myself where this is coming from. Is this a Treasury Board decision not to implement it? Is this a decision from Mr. Charles-Antoine St-Jean not to push or focus on this, or is this simply, within the bureaucracy, a reluctance and a hesitation to move forward?
Which of those three areas would accept the main focus of my question?