In all fairness, Mr. Speaker, I believe you must give me the time to answer and I will ask for unanimous consent to have at least two minutes to answer.
Over the past two years, the auditor general's office has conducted several audits of the management of the grant and contribution programs in various federal departments and agencies and found persistent flaws. “Persistent” is the term used by the auditor general.
The member should stop giving me this fancy footwork about the auditor general. It all depends on what the government will do with the auditor general's reports. He said himself “I could have shown a certain degree of annoyance with the management of the grant and contribution programs”.
As for the demagoguery shown by the member concerning the $841 million kept in Toronto, for his information—since he is apparently not aware of this—it is now $1 billion, because the finance minister is constantly hiding his surpluses in trust accounts. We will use the money kept in Toronto when we really need it. We did not need it because we had money in our coffers.