Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague raised a lot of interesting points.
I am specifically interested in the role of EDC as a crown corporation and what the member said regarding the auditor general looking at the account.
There is a question on a lot of people's minds. This is a crown corporation and should be working under the rules of how a crown corporation should work. It takes advantage of those rules but at the same time when it comes to the question of accountability and where the money has been spent, it hides behind private enterprise by saying it falls under privacy of customer information. It has its feet on both sides. It wants to work as a crown corporation but unlike other crown corporations that are accountable to parliament the Export Development Corporation is not accountable to parliament because of the Privacy Act.
Maybe the member would like to comment on that.