Thank you, Mr. Chair.
That is why I said that we agreed with the Auditor General. I think that if you do not have, as you mentioned, this feeling of urgency, it is because the priorities have been identified in most of the essential systems. The investment plans have been identified by the departments and Ms. Fraser has noted this. All that is missing is really the establishment of priorities for a government-wide plan. The departments have all done this. If you put all of this together, this may look staggering.
What is important for us, and this is where we agree with Ms. Fraser, is that we need to have an overall vision. If we were to invest in everything, we may not be making the best possible or necessary investments. So we have to make choices. We have to set priorities. What Ms. Fraser told us, and this is something that we agree with, is that we need to have this capacity for planning. If we go too quickly, for example, if we declare an emergency and proceed too quickly, we may spend a great deal of money without necessarily having set the right priorities and the best mechanisms for making such investments.
Yes, investments in this sector may be very expensive. So we want to take the time that we need. We want to set the right priorities to ensure that the investments are made in the right places according to a reasonable and doable timeline. Even though you may think that this takes time, in order to do this properly, we need to take the time that it takes because the investments are very significant.