Minister, what you're suggesting here is a brand-new, entirely different program. You're asking Parliament to now sign a blank cheque for something when we have no idea where it is going to be spent. We need specifics. We can't operate as a committee, and our Parliament cannot function, if we have people simply saying, “We need the money and we'll tell you about it a little later”.
I appreciate the fact that the Auditor General will have an opportunity to look at this, or that it has been passed by the Auditor General, but you know full well that for eighteen months she won't have an opportunity to pass judgment on what you're about to spend.
Let me ask you once again—