Mr. Speaker, I have listened to my friend's speech with much interest. I would now like to focus on a very particular situation. The government's inaction in ensuring that the foundations are correctly audited is detrimental to the reputation of those foundations, and that is a situation which cannot be justified.
Take for example the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The Auditor General has said that it ought to be audited. We know about projects funded by this foundation, which produce tangible results.
However, we are presently faced with the fact that, so far, the government's inaction has contributed to undermining the reputation of these foundations. Is what we want to propose not an opportunity to separate the wheat from the chaff, to be able to say what is working and what is not? And in the end, why could an hon. member not ask for an audit to be done of a particular foundation? In the end, we could proceed as we do for the departments.