I'll be glad to take it under advisement.
Again, here's my thinking, sir: I know as well as you, and I agree, that getting government to change decisions and make decisions at the standing committee level is very difficult. It's like pushing string. However, I've been around long enough to know that if the public turns on them on this issue, it will be fixed real quick, because that's a lot more than a $10.8 million problem. That's my purpose.
As I started to say when I got here, part of me is going to feel like a bit of a failure if I leave here after all these years on public accounts—after all the fights and skirmishes we had to get information to make sure we could do our job—and the work plan for the year following has been devastated and gutted. I'm sorry, I cannot help but leave here feeling like I failed really, after 15 years, and that is the condition that I walked away from the PAC and the Auditor General work of Parliament. Whether or not that belongs on my shoulders, that's how I feel. That's why I feel so passionately.
I know enough about politics to understand that if enough people become aware of this, there will be outrage and it will be changed. I only stand a very small chance of using this little filibuster at the public accounts committee as my means. Once I let go of that, I may have a letter that's signed unanimously by the committee. Had we done that from the very beginning, we might have a different process, but we didn't. Now the government's getting more and more entrenched, and if I stop this filibuster and relinquish the floor—although I don't believe for a moment I can single-handedly change the world—I know that it will be impossible to do that.