Thank you, Mr. Macdonald. I appreciate the opportunity.
We want to have a non-partisan and open discussion on this matter. I spent nine years in local government and I've been here six years, and trying to decipher the books is overwhelming. It's a bit like how you eat an elephant: one bite at a time. We're trying to figure out how we can digest this.
Two-thirds of expenditures are base or statutory allocated. Basically, we never take a look at them. Have you looked at that portion of the expenditures to see how the parliamentarians might be able to hold the government to account more effectively?