Mr. Speaker, my colleague is totally right in pointing out that the purpose is to increase public confidence in these foundations and even determine how relevant the foundations and their mandates are.
If we agree with the statement of the President of the Treasury Board that the foundations in question are well managed and administered, that they are carrying out their mandates—to the point of being the envy around the world, with foreigners coming here to study how the federal government put them in place—that they are transparent and are a model, since the President of the Treasury Board once said he had the “bestest public service in the world”, we must have nothing short of the “bestest” foundations in the world.
If we have the “bestest” in the world, let us also make it obvious to the Auditor General. She will be delighted.