Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To begin, I would also like to thank all the teams responsible for the publication of the Public Accounts of Canada. They are extremely useful documents that give MPs access to a ton of very important information.
There is still some way to go, though, to make this information more digestible to us, because we often have to take out the calculator and search for various things.
Along the same lines as my colleague Mr. Christopherson, I would like to add that, last week, the media actually reported that Chrysler's debt had been written off. That $2.6 billion is of course a striking amount given the considerable difference in total debt write-offs as compared to previous years.
As I said, all this information needs to be more digestible. For example, I wanted to figure out the total debt write-offs this year. I had to check a number of pages and do some calculations. I arrived at a total of roughly $4 billion in debts written off every year.
Mr. Chair, I would like Mr. Huppé or Mr. Rochon to answer the following question: do you think the federal government and its departments actually have enough control and the right processes in place to deal with debts and bad debts?