Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to you folks.
Let me, in the vernacular, give kudos to what used to be called the bean-counters, in the sense of making sure that the numbers jibe and actually looking after the beans, if you will. Because clearly that's who deserves the credit: the folks who work behind office walls somewhere out there in the bureaucracy.
Clearly, 15 years of clean audit is high marks, and it's high praise for those folks doing the work. You could take that back to your colleagues in your departments and say to them, from the official opposition, “Well done.” They have obviously done an exemplary job.
But there are a couple of troubling things, Ms. Cheng, in your report.
National Defence obviously is a sticking point. For 10 years now, they've said they would do better at their inventory control, and for 10 years they've failed to do that. I believe that, according to your report, they're now suggesting that sometime in 2016 maybe they'll get to it.
I recognize that this is somewhat of an opinion piece, but do we have any evidence that at least they're on their way to perhaps getting to that goal in 2016? Or is this the defence department telling us again that they're working at it, but we don't have any evidence that they're working at it?