Sir, I think I have the gist of what you're saying, and we're waiting for the official response in due course.
Another area of concern with the firearms registry is that it was originally budgeted at, I forget what, $80 million or $50 million by Allan Rock, I think it was, and we all know where this thing has gone. It's $1 billion. We've had some reports here, and we're scratching our heads, really wondering after all these years where we're actually at with this program.
In the Auditor General's report too, she basically made some observations about her concerns that maybe there wasn't a management cycle in this program. To me, that speaks to a lack of a management system in place, lacking in what management people call “continuous improvement processes”, and so on. It would seem logical to me that our auditors, whether they're internal or the Comptroller General or whoever it is, if they're auditing a government program and they don't see a good system in place or they see something that may in fact be out of control, would see that some action takes place so that costs don't balloon from $80 million to $1 billion. Then we're all scratching our heads on the recorded unrecorded liability to try to package up this nonsense.
Would you see that being a legitimate area of pursuit by Treasury Board, to make sure that government programs do have a good management system in place, and that they aren't running off the rails, jumping from one computer programmer to another?