Thank you, Chair.
It is correct to say that we have noted improvements in certain areas. Foreign credentials is certainly one area where we see that government is taking action to try to resolve a significant issue for many immigrants in the country. There have been recent developments on the issue of temporary workers as well—which I think is still on the order paper, actually—and we do see some progress being made in that area.
We are pleased that the departments have agreed to the recommendations we made in this audit. Obviously the responses published in the report are fairly short and not terribly specific, which is understandable. We would expect departments to prepare an action plan that would lay out actions to address these recommendations.
When we do our follow-up work...depending on the timelines the department itself establishes for accomplishing the various actions, we will generally re-audit to see if progress has been made. That is becoming standard practice.
We have not as yet seen an action plan from the departments. The committee could certainly encourage them to prepare one and ask for follow-up on a regular basis.