I disagreed with the call to have a minister called before this committee. It's appropriate to have the minister appear in other committees, and that happens regularly. But as Mr. Williams pointed out, we deal with the department heads and what goes on in the departments and we hold them to account. Ministers have their own responsibilities and accountability measures. It's not our job; other people do that.
Last year we got behind on the RCMP thing. I think we've been fighting all year to try to get caught up, and I think we can see the end of pipe. And lo and behold, here's a motion to bring up something I think was cleared up adequately at the last meeting. The minister has accepted responsibility.
My comments on this thing are that it seems to me that somebody is looking for big game here, but they're following rabbit droppings, if I can quote a famous person. And I really don't know where we're going here with $122,000 out of a $220-billion-plus budget.
And we've got lots of work ahead of us. The Auditor General keeps us busy, and we've got reports to get sorted out. So I don't know where this thing is going, and I think it would be a waste of our time to spend another minute pursuing this.