Mr. Speaker, we have already brought forward a number of measures to ensure the foundations report to the public and that is important. They do not always necessarily report to Parliament directly, but they do report to the responsible ministers. They do report to the responsible departments.
They cannot have it both ways. Either the foundations do good work, which they do, and they have admitted to that. So, tell me, what is the problem? The motion is one that we could have supported if it had not gone too far in demanding that the Auditor General be the external auditor of all foundations all the time which is really not something that can happen because some of the foundations are jointly managed by provinces. There are many provinces which would say to let them decide who will be their external auditor.
On the other hand, I still think that if it is federal money, our auditor should have the right to follow the money in the foundations. I would be prepared to support that part of the motion. The problem is that the opposition refuses to change its motion and it is just there to oppose and be negative. We are trying to work constructively and do good things.