Thank you, Chair.
Madam Commissioner, you are the second commissioner to come before this committee in a week or so to talk about resource problems from the government, which is really striking to me.
We had a fall fiscal update presented in Parliament yesterday that has over $60 billion in deficit. The government has no problem spending money on lots of things it wants to spend money on, but it is doing its best to starve critical accountability mechanisms of Parliament of the resources they need to investigate other spending and other decisions of government.
The Liberals suggest that we're opposed to this spending because we voted non-confidence in the government in general, which is obviously outrageous. If we had had our way in that non-confidence vote, we would have had a carbon tax election and likely a new prime minister who could actually address some of these systemic issues in government.
I want to ask you, Madam Commissioner, what the conversations you have with the government about these resource issues are like. Obviously, you present to it that we have a serious problem, and other leaders responsible for these accountability functions are presenting similar problems to the government. What does the government say back to you when you raise these resource problems?