I am glad to be so popular with my colleagues from the Bloc Quebecois. I understand what my colleague is saying, I am not the government, but I do understand what he is saying, and I can assure him that the government understands it as well. You are telling us that the Auditor General needs more information.
You want me and everyone listening tonight to believe that the existing committee does not have the authority to give to the Auditor General all the information he needs. Well, I want my colleague to know that it is possible, the existing committee can do just about anything it wants. The question is will the Bloc allow the committee to do it? I do not have the answer to that.
We can give the Auditor General exactly what he wants. We can give him all the information he needs, whenever we want to. There is nothing magic to it; it is possible, now-
The previous government did not want to do it, but we have a new government that wants to help.