As Parliamentary Budget Officer, you are the person we rely on. Why is it so difficult to track the dollars? Why is it so difficult to track, whether I commit $1 billion or $3 billion, what I have used? You're following accrual accounting. The government is following accrual accounting. It's not cash or modified cash, which is what the departments are using. If the departments are using the cash-basis system, and the government is using accrual, what's so difficult about tracking those dollars?
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