Thank you.
I would like to say I was very pleased when this committee and the subcommittee took on the whole issue of accrual appropriations. I know it is not the issue that's going to be in the household flyers. That members actually spent the time to delve into this I thought was very encouraging, because it is a really important issue. I was also very pleased to see the subcommittee and this committee's report, which I thought was an excellent report and really got to the issues.
I have to say I was very disappointed in government's response. Government has not addressed many of the recommendations of the committee. The timelines are very long. After eight, ten years of study, we're still talking about more studies in 2012. So while the minister has indicated the government continues its commitment to implementing departmental accrual budgeting and appropriations over the longer time, which is the first time any government has said that, so that's encouraging, there isn't a plan to implement. This is really not a plan to implement accrual appropriations. It's going to present some future-oriented financial information departmental performance reports, and then it says it's going to summarize all this and study the implications of extending it. I thought they did that.