Yes. On the other hand, what we have in the reform process in Canada is what you might call a “fractured” dialogue. A bunch of MPs get in, whose tenure, as I say, is less than 10 years, and they're dissatisfied with the estimates process. They produce a report, with often good ideas. Then there's an election, and another bunch comes in. Seven years later, they're dissatisfied, and another report comes. This is the third of those.
I mean, apart from going to a different system of electing people—some kind of proportional representation that would guarantee longer tenure for many MPs—I think the thing you have to do here is simply direct yourselves to how you as MPs feel now. What are you least comfortable about in your role as overseers of the public purse, and what would you like to see changed? It might be more detail in the estimates, or it might be quarterly reports that would make you feel much more comfortable—vote by vote, for that matter, although one must recognize that within government, there is no assumption made that the expenditure in a vote will be quarter by quarter; in fact they can have widely varying amounts per quarter.
I think there are a lot of things like that that you could do and propose. I think it's the stick-with-it-iveness that your committee can manifest before the next election that will determine what comes out of this.