If the committee is going to assume responsibility in its role of watchdog of these moneys, as it has in the past, you raise a very valid point on the enabling legislation not being passed.
On the second problem I think you're going to have, with all due respect, from the way we saw Statistics Canada respond to some of the pertinent questions we asked on how they benchmark trends and where money is best spent, I think it's very clear that we could be asking questions for which there are no answers at this time.
I understand we're trying to fill a bit of time here, and we have other pieces of information or ideas that we were going to work on through motions and resolutions. We may want to bide our time with that up until just beyond the supplementary estimates (C), which will probably take us into the first weeks of April. At that point I think we'll have a much better picture of how money is being allocated and its direct impact on stimulating the economy. In the meantime, I think we're trying to fill time here and it's going to be an exercise in futility. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I don't see how you're going to have witnesses coming forward saying, “Yes, this is how it's going to be spent” with the kinds of targets we want.