Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the Auditor General and his two advisors.
Mr. Ferguson, we are very pleased to have you with us at the committee. Your opinion is very important to us. I was joking earlier that when my accountant gives me advice, I follow it to the letter. We can consider you to be somewhat like Canada's accountant. We listen carefully to what you say.
You said that you agreed with abandoning cash accounting for the main and supplementary estimates. Do you think we should change the timetable for this? You said that, at present, the problem is that expenses are not included because the budget is tabled afterward.
Do you think that if we changed the accounting system, we would have to change the timetable for approving budgets?