Canada, being at the forefront when it comes to the quality of our public sector accounting standards, can't as easily import from abroad as we could if we were in a worse position. What I would respond by way of what I hope is a constructive answer to your question is to say that, if you look across the jurisdictions in Canada, if you look across the senior governments and in fact even the municipal governments.... I criticized their budgets, but when you look at their financial statements, you'll see something that you see in the good senior governments as well.
You will see that when they publish their results at the end of the year, it's the entire statement of operations. All of the revenue and all the expense is on one page, a clean audit opinion, and in just about every case they have the comparison to the budget. Ideally, it is not restated budget numbers, which are a bit of a thorn in the side of people who are trying to go back to the budget to see if they actually did what they said they were going to do. In every case, just about, for the major cities in Canada, you will see the financial statements so cleanly laid out that way and, as I say, they get clean audit opinions.
I am happy, since you mentioned Saskatchewan, to say that Saskatchewan and Alberta produce their public accounts within three months of the end of the fiscal year. There's no reason that other governments can't do the same thing.
If you like our table, if you simply look across the governments in each criterion and ask what would happen if we were able to level up across the governments.... If Yukon can put the key numbers on page 8 of its budget—I don't have it in front of me right now, but it's something like that—if they can do it, anybody can do it. Anybody could do it. The federal government could do it in the upcoming spring budget. We can do a lot simply by looking across the country.