Mr. Page, I don't mean to interrupt, and I really appreciate your effort to put a diplomatic light on this. I realize that some of these questions may put you in an awkward position, and it's by no means a comment on the talent and desire of our civil servants. We get the sense that there's significant frustration all the way through this. But it is simply not acceptable to have an answer of, well, it's a big project and lots of dollars and it's unusual.
I go back to the situation in the United States. I'm looking at a screenshot from the Recovery.org website. This has been available for months. It hasn't just come out. In Canada, we're now looking at close to a year now of some of these things starting. On the Recovery.org website, the information in the United States, which has been available from very early on in the stimulus package program, has been thorough and accessible. It has shown a tremendous effort of transparency and accountability on behalf of the American government.
I will reiterate that I appreciate your effort to be diplomatic. I will stress that our comments are in support of all of the people in the civil service who are trying. Our sense is that there's a very strong frustration with what appears to be instructions from the political side that this information not in fact be disclosed. We cannot imagine that this information is in fact not in the government somewhere, and that begs the question, why is not coming out?
I thank you very much, but you can understand our frustration as well.