Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Page.
I just want to read a quote before I start:
It is by the application of the power of the purse that we have moved forward, slowly and prosaically, no doubt, but without any violent overturning, and have grown from being a small island in the Northern seas to be the centre of a world-wide Empire.
That was said 100 years ago by Winston Churchill in the Liberties of Britain, so I don't think this is a new question.
I have had an opportunity, quite frankly, to run 10 businesses—manage them, own them, have a $20 million portfolio. Financial statements are the only way I could run those businesses. I had hundreds of employees.
I am overwhelmed here. I am under budget, trying to run a $300,000 budget with a constituency like Fort McMurray—Athabasca, where I have huge immigration problems, a tremendous number of issues, and I have to run it all on that basis—all the employees, etc.
It's almost impossible. What you're suggesting along with that, or at least some of the practical suggestions, I just find overwhelming, and I don't know how it can be done with the current economic climate, and certainly not with the budget and what's happening in the world.
I would like to ask you a couple of questions regarding that, though, and I think there are some good suggestions—one in relation to the way we vote—and I think the Auditor General, in essence in a 2003 report, felt that the key to effective review is knowledge of the institution. I don't disagree with you there.
I was wondering about your own department in relation to what you do yourself. I know that recently you've developed computer software. Do you know which computer software system I'm speaking of? What's it called?