Thank you very much for your characterization.
We feel extremely strongly. I was speaking with the chairman of the board, and I have to say we do have extremely strong governance and capability there. The chairman of our audit committee is the head of Falconbridge. We were looking at Sarbanes-Oxley implementations early on.
It is very serious for us. We do not avoid, at all, any issues around general accountabilities, and I did not have time to list all the areas where we do post on our website, and provide to Parliament, our annual report, our annual report supplements, and our corporate plans.
I should also mention that in the last 18 months, we have just been through a series of compliance audits from Natural Resources Canada, which we passed. We undertook an early third party evaluation for lessons learned to improve the efficiency of our program.
We have also been working with the Auditor General. We will be the first foundation that she will have a performance report on this fall. It's a performance, value-for-money audit under the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. I cannot say what the outcome will be, but I can't say we're worried about seeing the material before Parliament.
We've also just finished our interim evaluation. We consider ourselves to be respectful of the fact that we have taxpayers' money. We do believe that we are highly accountable. We report about what we can, but we are severely concerned that we will not be able to continue to be efficient or to engage the private sector to the level of success that we have.
I believe the issue around innovation in Canada, and the capacity of our entrepreneurs to take their products to market, from which we then see profit flow back into the innovation chain, is severely at risk, particularly in clean technologies.