In summation, Mr. Chairman, the rules of Canada Revenue Agency and Revenue Canada have been that business operates on accrual accounting. For the better part of a hundred years, I would imagine, they have insisted that business do it on that basis. For the government to think they might apply the same simple rigour to themselves at this late date seems astonishing.
I'm just so glad we're there on the accounting, and if we are not there on the budgeting, then I hope this committee has something to say on it, because you can't have one without the other.