Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for having put some of the remarks of Kevin Page from a recent Hill Times article on the record. I think he has a lot of credibility. He was cited as an authority by the President of the Treasury Board, and I think his remarks with respect to overturning an important principle of parliamentary accountability are quite true, and I am so glad to have them on the record.
I wonder if the member wanted to elaborate a bit more on what it means to try and hold a government to account, and whether it makes sense, on that notion of accountability, that we could do that if we do not have the information as to how the government is planning to spend the money until after the money is already spent, and what that means in terms of the idea of holding people to account.