I think the federal government should move its legislated deadline for presenting the public accounts up from the end of the year. As my colleague mentioned, it's a very difficult undertaking—that's understood—for the federal government to produce these numbers. It's a large, complex organization, but as I said already, many provinces and territories are able to get their public accounts many months earlier than the federal government does. Although they might appear simple from a federal perspective, they are quite complex in their own eyes, and they don't have the same resources that the federal government does to draw the numbers together.
I think that would make a lot of sense. I think it would enable the public accounts committee to look at the numbers while they are still fresh and address some of the things, including the potential discrepancies you addressed with your earlier question to Nick, and the public accounts committee would find that its work had more traction.
