Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would also like to thank the Auditor General for her work and for the integrity and credibility with which she is held in the highest regard in the country.
Leaks are always unfortunate, but they do occur, as you have pointed out. This is the eighth one—seven under the Liberals and now this one under us. It just seems to be a fact of life, although I would rather that it wasn't this way.
I note Mr. Wrzesnewskyj's comment that he takes these things with so much seriousness, but I never heard him say anything about taking these things seriously before the last election when he was on the other side. He has a new lease on life on this seriousness thing, so we'll see how it lasts.
But you know, Mr. Chairman, under the Liberals everything in the budget was leaked weeks ahead of time, so there was no news and no surprises when we had the budgets delivered by the minister—