I'll be really brief.
Your idea, your comments on transparency, do we want to see that? The short answer is yes.
You've said there won't be any cuts; everybody knows we have a labour shortage. I'd really like to believe that.
I'm a literate person. I read this bill from cover to cover. I read proposed section 80; I read some of the others. It doesn't say that they're going to maintain some of those things that we think are important. It doesn't say that the Government of Canada is going to backstop this stuff. It doesn't say that the seven wise men will collect enough money to make sure part II training is going to be continued.
I agree with you on the $54 billion to this extent. There is no money bin. Mr. Flaherty is not diving in it like Scrooge McDuck. It's been spent by your government and predecessor governments. We've used it for a number of purposes. There is no pot of money that you're sitting on that could magically appear.
But in terms of transparency, I don't read this bill as a transparency bill. It's opaque to me.