Thank you, Chair.
Certainly, welcome to our witnesses.
Obviously, there's a recognition that the Auditor General had some concerns, and that the department has been reacting, and quite frankly, I'm pleased to see in a very favourable manner.
The one point I would make right off the bat is that I'm absolutely encouraged. Generally, this committee takes its responsibility very seriously and asks for a definitive action plan based upon the testimony of the witnesses, and of course, the response to the Auditor General. I'm very pleased to see that we have one before we've asked for one. I think that's a great step forward. Obviously, we're going to have to have some time to digest it, and quite frankly, see whether or not we find it satisfactory to this committee, but at least it's a marvellous step forward. So thank you very much for providing to the committee a response to some of the concerns that have already been registered. It shows that you're just not sitting on your fanny waiting for the committee's recommendation to move forward, and you do take these concerns seriously. So thank you very much.
My question in this is this. In moving forward, I unfortunately haven't digested this thing, but I'm concerned. What I don't want to see are abstract words like we're thinking about this, we have a desire to do this, we have a willingness to do that. I want to see absolute, concrete, definitive action. Now in this action plan here, rather than go through the whole thing with definitive action, could you at least pull out a couple of measures in the action plan that would demonstrate a concrete move forward—moves that are addressing real problems identified by the Auditor General?
Ms. Yeates.