Public Accounts committee  I would be ill-advised to answer otherwise, but of course, we take the Auditor General's viewpoint into consideration. We also take into account the opinions of our colleagues from various departments who are called upon to administer each of these areas of expertise. Of course,

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. This process was begun a few years ago. The goal was not to eliminate one policy rather than another, but rather to do a spring cleaning, if I may use that expression. Over the years, more and more rules have been created and there was no clear struc

Public Accounts committee  There are many of them. One of them has to do with financial administration measures. Some 80 policy instruments were in place and we have reduced this number considerably. Some of these policies concerned the management of taxi chit purchases, petty cash or the current expenditu

Public Accounts committee  That's right.

Public Accounts committee  No, but it will be completed in this fiscal year. We expect 90% of these 44 policies to be rescinded. We expect there to be 44 at the end of the process, but this figure may vary slightly, according to the viewpoint of the President of the Treasury Board, of course. All of these

Public Accounts committee  Yes, on the Treasury Board site, under the heading "TB Policy Suite Renewal."

Public Accounts committee  In general?

Public Accounts committee  I don't think I was referring to shared services.

Public Accounts committee  I'm talking about the Mazankowski-Tellier Report. That's the Advisory Committee on the Public Service appointed by the Prime Minister, co-chaired by Messrs. Mazankowski and Tellier, which has been conducting proceedings for nearly two years. They first targeted human resources. I

Public Accounts committee  Not in the sense you seem to be describing.

Public Accounts committee  I'd like to answer the first question, as to whether there are any deadlines. Absolutely. In the context of this web of rules, an action plan was established and submitted to Messrs. Mazankowski and Tellier. A report was produced on the subject quite recently. The result—and here

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. We entirely acknowledge the importance of the matter. In our mind, these are not 50 small agencies of no importance, with respect to the nature of their functions or their expenditures and activities. We are very definitely concerned about their prop

Public Accounts committee  We spoke on the policy renewal process earlier on. It might be worth describing a little of what has been done with the MAF. In the case of the oversight tools that the secretary spoke about, the ones that were described were critical ones. MAF is also a very important tool for

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In terms of understanding the honourable member's concerns about the state of progress, perhaps just before I dive into the specific question being addressed, I would like to step back a little and have a look, because I think we all agree it would be very

Public Accounts committee  We've had those discussions with colleagues in other jurisdictions, at the provincial and international levels, and I think it's important to remember that doing that kind of cleanup is fairly tedious. It's one of the reasons those rules and the associated reporting burden have b