Public Accounts committee  Mr. Saxton never asks easy questions. In the last how many years?

Public Accounts committee  I have frequently indicated to this committee, Mr. Chairman, that at the level of summary reporting to Parliament and to Canadians, I believe the Government of Canada is a world leader. I believe that is the case for a number of reasons. First, the Government of Canada adopted

Public Accounts committee  In the last how many years, Mr. Saxton?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Public Accounts committee  In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, we're one part of a three-cog wheel. We work with Parliament, this committee in particular, and with government in trying to improve the public administration of programs in Canada. We believe that by working effectively together we can make a differe

Public Accounts committee  The Auditor General has a number of advisory bodies that provide advice to the Auditor General personally. We have a panel of senior advisors made up of former politicians--very credible and senior politicians. Mr. Broadbent is a member of our panel of senior advisors. Mr. Joe Cl

Public Accounts committee  The Auditor General has a great deal of flexibility to choose what subjects to audit. I will talk about this a little more in our presentation. We have a fairly sophisticated audit planning system to choose what we are going to audit. One of the most important decisions we can ma

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. On page 2 of the deck, Mr. Chairman, I provide an overview of my presentation. I'll be talking about the mandate of the work of the Office of the Auditor General, our audit products, our processes, our accountability, and how we measure the impact of the work of the

Public Accounts committee  Would you like me to proceed right into my presentation, Mr. Chairman, or would you like the introductions first?

Public Accounts committee  My name is John Wiersema and I am the Interim Auditor General of Canada.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am happy to have the opportunity to discuss our role and mandate with you today. Before I start my presentation, I would like to say a few words about our independence. Our office has been around since 1878. It started out as part of government. There ha

Public Accounts committee  I would prefer to characterize it the way we've characterized it in our report, Mr. Chairman, that in our opinion one of the structural impediments to significant fundamental change that Mr. Campbell referred to that's needed here is the absence of a legislative basis for many of

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I will try my best to be brief in response to that. The question of the level of funding the government provides for aboriginal issues on reserves is fundamentally a policy question. The structural impediment we identified in our report is to provide some predict

Public Accounts committee  I’ll perhaps ask Ms. Loschiuk to clarify, but I'm not aware that Infrastructure Canada has done an internal audit.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I am not aware of the specific documentation the member refers to, so I don't feel comfortable commenting on documentation that I don't have in front of me and that I don't recall having seen. I'm prepared to pursue it with the member outside this meeting if he woul