Okay. That's fine.
From my standpoint, two things were truly relevant and particularly interesting.
One of them covered an area of concern to me, which is the Crown corporations. In view of the taxpayer money they receive, I believe that they should indeed be subject to performance audits. It would be helpful to have more such audits, particularly as Crown corporations, like departments, should be included in the Public Accounts of Canada. I believe that it would be perfectly appropriate for them to be given a thorough audit of that kind, because they receive taxpayer money. It's mainly a question of transparency. Departments are required to report which people and companies receive funds, which is not the case for Crown corporations. I think that's a major problem. We already made a recommendation about it last year when we tabled the report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. I am awaiting a response from the Treasury Board, but it keeps postponing it.
The other extremely interesting point was partly raised here by one of my colleagues. I think that the most recent saga with respect to the Trudeau foundation, and the exchange you had with my leader, Mr. Yves-François Blanchet, about how much you could actually do, pointed to a potential problem. When money leaves the government and goes to a private foundation or organization, what you can do in your audit is relatively limited. I took that to be the reason why you couldn't do the requested audit. I think this aspect is covered by the first factor you mentioned, which is access to information.
Why not include all those who receive money from the government in the potential audits? A performance audit could identify what certain private stakeholders did with public funds.
Could you tell us more about that?