I want it on the record, especially for my fellow citizens who are very familiar with the work we do here at the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. If they have that much respect for the work we do, it is because they know our work at this committee is consensus-based.
In the past, Conservative chairs of this committee always favoured consensus. I am thinking of Mr. Sorensen, for example.
Here's what we are seeing now: we're facing off like adversaries, as though we were in court before a judge. Furthermore, Conservative members are proposing that we do work already being done elsewhere. There’s the real waste.
We know full well what they are trying to do right now. They claim the Liberals don’t want to discuss this very important subject. However, that is completely false. This is a very important subject and we are always ready to work on it together. We cooperate with members of this committee when it comes to the Auditor General’s work.