I would like to read this in English, because I have the English version in front of me now.
“Government operations and estimates shall include, among other matters...the review of and report on the effectiveness, management and operation, together with operational and expenditure plans of the central departments and agencies”. It's a broader mandate. I understand Mr. Gourde's concern about perhaps some of the other committees, but I do believe that in that sense it is a rather broad mandate.
Mr. Warkentin raised a concern about our overall committee process and the work that we're doing. I would agree, and I think I have the agreement of colleagues here. We are doing very important work in this committee. In this regard I would volunteer that rather than pre-empting everything else that we're doing, which is important work, if there is some agreement to schedule one day for this and one day for our asset freeze work, I'd be more than happy to do that, because I also want to make sure that the good work this committee is doing on other issues continues.