Mr. Speaker, I hate to disagree with the hon. member. I certainly do not want to be disagreeable.
However, again I will quote the Auditor General:
...[departments] are responsible for accounting and reporting their spending through the Public Accounts of Canada....
That is a direct quote from the Auditor General. He said that spending within the departments would have undergone normal control procedures in those departments. He concludes:
We didn't identify anything that would cause us to say that we felt that anything was going on outside of those processes.
These are the words of the Auditor General.