Mr. Speaker, if we have a system on this side of the House that is blocking information from getting out, then we are not doing a very good job. It seems to me that every single mistake we have made has been well documented and is well known.
The member said himself that the auditor general has done a very good job in bringing everybody to account. The auditor general's function is not something new. It is not something that has just happened in the last six months. The Auditor General of Canada has been here year after year.
It was this government that brought out the fact that these reports on making us accountable would be done quarterly rather than annually. We have quadrupled the pressure on the auditor general to make us accountable four times a year, more times than what has happened in the past. The member should acknowledge that fact. We were the ones who said the auditor general would do her report quarterly. We do not think for a second that we can circumvent the auditor general and in fact we are not.
The member acknowledged that the auditor general was doing a very good job. In no way, shape or form do we disagree with her. That is the nature of our governance. We are constantly in a state of accountability. When we make mistakes those mistakes are corrected.
We would never acknowledge the mistakes that were made in the past few weeks as anything other than mistakes that need to be corrected. The Prime Minister has said that several times himself. What bothers me about the debate in the last three weeks is that once a point has been made, why do we not get on to the challenges that we have in the House such as dealing with the issues of agriculture, the homeless and all the other issues that are a challenge to this country?