Because we're just talking about the amendment right now, I'm not going to get into the entire substance of the issue. But I'm going to refer to what Mr. Angus was speaking about with regard to timelines.
It seems we haven't at any point scheduled a time when we're going to start talking about the report we're going to bring forward on the geographical distribution and the turnover of the public service. We have spent time on these issues, we have gotten halfway through a study, and then all of a sudden our attention has been turned. I don't know when we as a committee decided we would not proceed with these investigations.
So we have that one. We have the real estate plan, which we have had many hearings on and have discussed. We've never gotten to the bottom of where we are as a holder of real estate—we've heard about the condition of very few buildings—and what we as a committee might suggest to the government. Every time the government talks about doing something with real estate, there seem to be howls from the opposition, yet there have been absolutely zero recommendations from this committee with regard to real estate.
There really is no position for the opposition or the members of this committee to howl, if the government decides to proceed with something, because there have been zero recommendations from this committee. It's just complete political rhetoric. There has been that on the real estate plan; there's been that on the geographical distribution; there's been that on the passport issues. There's been nothing from this committee.
I know that Madame Bourgeois is going to be upset with me for saying this, but she has to agree the taxpayers' money is being wasted, because we continue to have these discussions as to what we think may be ailing the federal government, but at the end of the day we put nothing concrete, nothing beneficial forward to provide any direction for the government whatsoever.