Mr. Speaker, I think the Auditor General does fantastic work for Canadians. If I ever became prime minister I would have five auditors general. I have said this before. The problem with this place is that the elected culture is no longer running things; it is the unelected officials who are running things around here.
In my own city of Toronto where we spend $22.5 billion a year, I have been trying for a year to find out where that whole $22.5 billion goes and I still cannot get the answer. They only want to let me know where half of it goes. The problem is that the provinces have the same problem in dealing with unelected officials.
As elected members of Parliament we should not walk away from the challenge of finding out where our Canadian dollars are going. To continue to allow the same system of just writing cheques and letting people do what they want, whether they are federal bureaucrats or provincial bureaucrats, is wrong. It is time to get the elected people back in the business of knowing where the tax dollars are going.