Mr. Speaker, let me go back to the member's opening statement when he said that since there were no audited financial statements how could we understand them. It is simply untrue. Every one of them has audited financial statements and every one of them posts an operational plan.
Let me be clear on this. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Canada Health Infoway, the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Genome Canada, the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the green municipal investment fund, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation are the foundations in question. Every one of them has an independent evaluation report that is on its website and can be tabled in the House.
Members should spend some time looking at this. It has only been in recent history that they have even been called before the House.
I would encourage the member to give some support to his obvious strong feelings about that and suggest that the committee, on which he sits, call the foundations forward to have this conservation with them. However to simply do it based on a headline is not very functional.