Then it would be wrong to imply, directly or indirectly, that she has approved of this process and that she doesn't have the same reservations, although we should be clear, and the public should know, that the Auditor General's job is to review the spending after the fact to see if there was good value for the taxpayer.
It's really our job as the government operations and estimates committee to review the proposed spending and to make sure that the appropriate checks and balances are in place. If we keep coming back to that as a line of questioning, that's exactly what our job is.
I come from the province of Manitoba, where the estimates process goes on all through the night, where the ministers will stay for 12 hours at a time and be grilled line by line on their proposed spending, not spending after the fact. I've always found that ours was a little light in our process.