I'll answer for you. The answer is no. The departments do it, not the Treasury Board.
I would submit that it was a political decision to interfere with the release of the public documents. It gets back to my question about accountability and transparency, where you have...well, you just told me. The government has interfered with the release of these completed documents. I think the call letter, originally, said to release them before the minister was appointed, so I find it difficult to understand why, before the minister was even appointed, they were not released.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer, in the supplementary report, stated that it's difficult for parliamentarians to vote and do their job when this information is not released. I'm looking for a commitment from the department to be accountable to Parliament, to be transparent to taxpayers and to allow us to do our job, which I would say your department has perhaps interfered with.
I quote the Parliamentary Budget Officer: “I am recommending that Parliament consider legislative amendments to require tabling of the Government's financial statements no later than September 30”.
Do you believe it's possible to have legislation? Is it doable, from your point of view? Can we have these documents mandated to be released by September 30—the public accounts and the DRRs?