We have had people before the committee to explain this in the past, Mr. Chair.
My amendment is to continue on, after “the Public Accounts of Canada”, but that it report the number of payments and the total paid under each category. I thought, Mr. Chairman, that we always had that in here.
With regard to Mr. Bélanger's point about the balance between the executive and the legislative branch, they have tried to slip this through every year. They start off by saying to just give them a blanket “forever” authorization, to which we have responded that there is no possible way that is ever going to happen; we'll give it to you on a year-by-year basis. As you see, this is getting watered down to less and less, and therefore we have to be vigilant.