No, no, I appreciate that. I understand that part; I was asking about when you can't, and you answered it in the first sentence. I appreciate that.
Basically, if you can't meet this test, you shouldn't recommend selling the assets. As a public servant, this is the direction you were given. I just quoted from what you had in your speech. Certainly it's what I read from the budget.
Would the same apply in terms of a review? I'm concerned here; I actually sit on the foreign affairs committee, and many of us are more than displeased about the fact that the department has been cut. I'll say “cut”; you'll say it differently, and I understand that.
The point is that when a government says we have to meet these targets, they have one of two choices. They can either go and find the money or they can eat it--i.e., a deficit. That's where we're concerned.
You're being told as bureaucrats to go and do these reviews and identify the assets. My question--it's not about methodology here, I understand that you were very comprehensive--concerns the operational side. Do you go into a department and say, “We need to find this amount”? Is that how it works?