Mr. Speaker, perhaps the minister needs to know what her department is up to.
I quote from a letter from her deputy minister, which says, “Since June, when the interim audit report became available, we have devoted intensive and sustained management attention”.
In June HRDC set up a working group to deal with the internal audit. In August it started developing a department-wide action plan. By the end of August her department had produced an extensive communications plan.
Let me ask the minister one more time, how could she possibly be unaware that her department was in high gear—