Madam Speaker, the hon. member has just given an illustration of exactly what I am talking about.
His idea of compliance is to say that the government complied because the government said it complied. That is exactly what the minister said in her report.
There is no metric, statistical or otherwise, by which anything can be measured because the government, for whatever reason, has decided that it will not benchmark itself against anything or anyone. Without benchmarks, to just simply say the government complied because it complied is a meaningless statement. I could say that I am an NHL hockey player because I am an NHL hockey player, but if anybody saw me on the ice, they would no darn well that I am not an NHL hockey player.
It is a useless report. I fail to understand why the same level of accountability that British MPs get, Canadian MPs cannot get.
It is a simple idea. We want accountability. We do not want accountancy. This is just a ream of statistics which are utterly meaningless.