Okay. On that very point, I'm looking at...this is the Treasury Board Secretariat, tab 4 of the book, page 45. The Comptroller General of Canada, part of the Treasury Board of Canada, reports directly to the President of the Treasury Board. In your last report on the financing of the gun registry, a convoluted legal opinion trumped the opinion of the Comptroller General, who said, “I disagree”, and all of a sudden we have lawyers telling professional accountants how to handle accounting matters.
Now that we have all these professional accountants as chief financial officers, the question begs to be asked, Mr. Chairman: what's the point if lawyers can trump accountants when it comes to accounting matters?
Here's a situation where the Comptroller General disagreed with a policy of the department and yet was overruled, and we heard nothing about it. Would that type of situation come to light in the future, and if so, on what basis?