Well, I do.
Nobody really wants to say, okay, decision support information, where the F-35, a crime bill.... I'm not picking on the Conservative side, because I'm sure you can go back a few years and talk about other issues of the day. Here's our decision support analysis. Here's the analysis that we used to make this decision, and here's what we're trying to achieve with it.
Unless members around this table and in the House of Commons say what they want, they will never get it. Obviously, the way power will work is it will work to make sure that we control.
There's a great expression I heard from a German colleague recently. He said, “Kevin, trust is good, but control is better.”
Trust is good, and the only way you get trust is by sharing information and having open debates. But if you can control it, you don't even need trust. You don't need to share information. Public servants like myself, who have operated the system for three decades, have manufactured a system so that you never get to see what you really need to see to do your job.
What we tried to do at PBO, and why people actually even came to this organization, was to show you what it might look like. What we released yesterday—and no offence—was actually decision support information after the fact. People behind the scenes get that all the time. This is what's rare. The kinds of projections Dr. Askari does and all the analysis around them...everybody behind the scenes, cabinet ministers, gets that. You don't get that unless you get it from Dr. Askari.
PBO is a bit different that way. We're showing the art of the possible. I know there's friction. I can feel the friction in this room, like the “media star” comments or whatever. There is friction. But it isn't friction. We're just trying to give you stuff that we were giving cabinet ministers in the past. That's the reason why we came. No one's getting rich here.