Mr. Speaker, my question is for the President of the Treasury Board.
The government's own Treasury Board manual requires that reports be tabled in the House of Commons annually on the status of contracting out. For two years now the government has failed to release this important information, even though even as far back as 1991-92 this involved over $10 billion in expenditures, $3 billion of which was without competitive process.
Why is the minister disobeying his own guidelines by withholding these reports for two years running?