I think we agree so far. I now come to some of the issues that my NDP colleagues have been raising. Why would the government want this committee to have that information in the first place?
The government would generally prefer to feed us stuff that it wants us to have, not give us a capacity to dig out stuff that they may not want us to have. They're doing expenditure reviews. If they want to get rid of a program or cut it, they can cut it without having some nagging little parliamentary committee telling it what to do and digging up dirty things that they might not want us to know about.
Why would the government want to cooperate with us on this?