Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
The lengthy notice of motion that I presented at the start, that I inflicted on the members here in the room and on the people watching on television, can be summarized easily. When we arrived in the House, after the May 2 election, 14 chapters of the report of the previous Auditor General had not yet been considered fully by this committee. The previous committee had done some work on seven of those chapters and they only needed to be presented again to get the government's response. For three of those chapters, we simply needed to wait for the committee to adopt the report to present them and get a response from the government. The committee still had work to do on three of them. There is also the matter of the 2010 Public Accounts of Canada report that has not yet been addressed by the committee.
I won't ask you for your opinion on the topics at hand, even though some of them were important. Among other things, we're talking about the cost overrun in the purchase of military helicopters. We're talking about the issue of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner who had been fairly controversial. So there are important issues. I won't ask you for your opinion on those matters.
But I will ask you this. If you are appointed Auditor General and you need to present reports that may address important issues, what do you think the impact would be of seeing one of your reports ignored by this committee? I'm not talking about your work, but the quality of the government's response to those recommendations that wouldn't be considered by this committee?