Thank you very much, Chair.
Actually, to respond as well, I know my colleague across the floor had asked a question with regard to the last time we did not have a clean audit. I actually have some documentation here. It was actually back in 1996-97, and it was a result of either the overstating of the liabilities and/or $800 million that was recorded as owing to an organization after the organization wasn't even in existence. So it was unfortunate. There was a bit of a pea-in-the-shell game going on, but that was then.
The fortunate thing is right now--and I'm tremendously confident here--we've had respective governments since of different stripes in here. We've had 12 consecutive years of a clean audit, and I'm tremendously encouraged by that, because Canadians have to have confidence in our system. They have to have confidence in the accountability of it, and they have to have confidence that the government financing is up to par by respected international standards. We have that clean audit, and I'm really pleased to see that.
But I would like to know if that is relative. For example, we have a clean audit. Does everybody else in the world have clean audits? How do we compare with other nations?