I think it was determined that the public accounts committee should be recommending to the government that they adopt that, because it's too difficult for them to work on cash appropriations and accrual accounting. So we should discuss that in committee and perhaps report it to the House.
My second question, Mr. Chairman—I know we may want to get on to another issue—is on volume III, p. 2.11. We're talking here about debts, obligations, claims written off or forgiven. It adds up to just under $3 billion, which is a significant amount of money even for the Government of Canada.
Have you any comments on this, Mr. St-Jean? I notice that a lot of the writeoffs, Mr. Chair, are theft of computers and staff defalcations and money stolen from the RCMP—you would think it would be safe there—and border security selling vehicles that they've impounded, and unfortunately, keeping the cash--