Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are two things. One is that before paragraph 6.17, at the beginning of the part about the nutrition north program, it says we didn't do an assessment of communities to determine who had the need and who would be eligible. It just went with communities

Public Accounts committee  It was a performance audit. We looked at the department's performance in a number of areas.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I'll respond to the question, and I may ask Mr. Wheeler to help with some of the details. What we did is that we took a sample. If you look at TPC in exhibit 6.3, that was the number of projects we examined: 41. Of that 41, and Mr. Wheeler will correct me if I'm wr

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Following from the discussion that has just happened, I mean, certainly there were areas that were not satisfied. There were reports that were required that have not been received, and the department, rather than follow up with the companies, told us tha

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With all the caveats that an auditor would put on something that he hasn't audited—and I could go on but I won't—we haven't audited that information. Nonetheless, we took a quick look at the department's action plan and it seems to be complete. We just took

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, the department is doing a lot of stuff. It's done a lot of good stuff and it's gathering a lot of information. What we've pointed out is that there's critical information that needs to be gathered, evaluated, and reported. It's not a question of their doing nothing

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Wheeler is going to answer that question.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, certainly we believe it's important. I think the initial question was about one particular evaluation. For each one of those, there may be a practical or logical reason for putting it off, but I think our concern is broader than that; that is, there's been a series of evalua

Public Accounts committee  That sounds like a question of policy, Mr. Chairman.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for the question. We have observations around paragraph 6.38 and onward about the need to evaluate the extent to which these programs are meeting their objectives. On a number of occasions commitments were made to evaluate and they haven't

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm joined today by Glenn Wheeler and Nadine Cormier, who worked on this audit. With that I'll begin my opening statement. Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity to discuss chapter 6, Transfer Payments to the Aerospace Sector—Industry Canada. Joining

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As members will know, the Auditor General has commented on several occasions on the reporting burden placed on first nations. The last time we did so was in the spring of 2011, at which time we hadn't observed a notable improvement at all. It will be with some interest that at so

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I mean, accountability between first nations and the federal government is one issue, but within first nations is another issue. Certainly, for people who have an interest, whether it's people who have an interest in a company or a community, the more information they have a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we haven't.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sure, Mr. Chairman, that we would accept any invitation from the committee, as long as it is kept to those things that we're competent to speak about.