I will attempt to answer that.
First of all, we have a system of follow-up, and we do follow up with the recommendations and we follow them for two, three, four, five years to determine whether or not the government department or agency has done what it has agreed to do. First of all, if they don't agree to the recommendation, that's the end of it. But I want to make it absolutely clear that we are a committee of accountability. We have no way of enforcement. All we can do is bring publicity to it. We can report to the House. We can report to the media, but if the government does not do it—and of course it has happened that they've agreed to follow certain recommendations of the public accounts committee and we find out five years later that they haven't—we can't enforce it; we can bring a lot of publicity and we can report to Parliament. The Auditor General herself can go back and do follow-up audits, which could possibly bring more embarrassment to the department for not doing what they agreed to previously.
Regarding your second question, Ms. Fraser is probably better able to answer that, but it is my understanding that all we can do—and we have done on occasion—is make a recommendation that she look at this. Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. She has her own criteria and her own protocol as to what audits are undertaken by her office and what are not.
Perhaps I will get her to answer that question.