Okay. I've been here for six years looking at estimates, and when the ministers come in front of us, it's often that the opposition are political about it. I'm assuming that if we were on the other side of the table it would be exactly the same. We ask more questions on the estimates, or there are other questions for the minister that the minister may know the answer to.
My view after looking at this is that we would be better off having the minister here, not for estimates, not for the actual blue books, but for the plans and priorities document and maybe the performance documents at the end. Very few members of Parliament look at those documents, in my estimation. Obviously I can't speak for all of them, but I don't recall a minister ever getting a question from a report on plans and priorities, other than maybe from me.
If we left the estimates alone—we may change the system a bit—when we talk about programs, are we not better off as members of Parliament to be questioning the minister and the staff on the RPPs and the performance reports, without having to reinvent the wheel? Because programs are more highlighted in those documents that already exist.
How do you feel about that?