Mr. Speaker, the reality is that this delay and inaction is causing the provincial governments serious difficulty.
One reason that Manitoba cannot bring down its budget is because it has no way of telling how much less it may receive in health and other transfers from this government because of this huge accounting fiasco. Soon this cloud will pass over other provinces and other Canadians.
Is the government prepared to see every provincial government and the vital services they deliver to Canadians come to a standstill while we wait for the government to come up with a plan on how to recover this $3.3 billion in missing taxpayer dollars? When will this plan come forward?