It's a fact that we don't have public accounts, and today is October 19. We don't have public accounts yet, and the fiscal year of the government ended March 31. We are almost 7 months into the new fiscal year. You collectively have been asked to vote on appropriation, meaning to vote on allowing the government to get funding to function. You were asked that in March and you were asked that on a couple of occasions, but you still don't know what happened with the money you voted on 18 months ago.
It's a concern for me that collectively speaking, we don't know the outcome of the year that closed on March 31 and we're almost seven months into the next fiscal year. The International Monetary Fund says that best practices would call for public accounts to be tabled within six months of the end of a fiscal year. The Government of Canada, with all its machinery, could certainly do that if it wanted to. There might be a lack of willingness on the part of the government to do that. I don't know why. We have seen years when the AG signed off on the government's public accounts in September, but they were not able to provide them until weeks after that.