Thank you, Mr. Warawa.
We've established that most of the issues with those particular agriculture programs in the environmental farm plan aren't with the actual accountability on the ground or the programs themselves, but with the fact that the department can't actually verify the value of those programs.
When I look at the report on page 17, I see sections 3.58, 3.59, and 3.60 deal with operational resources that were not tracked by the program. It says the department was allocated $400 million for the programs contribution portion over the five-year life of the APF and $126 million for administration.
So we've got over half a billion dollars there. Then it goes on to say:
We expected the Department to have plans that identified objectives and expected results....
Those were the expectations of the department from your audit. And then 3.60 says:
However, the Department was unable to provide a complete set of financial information to demonstrate that this type of planning had occurred.
Those are very troubling things for me to read. Can you remind us of when the agriculture policy framework came forward, which administration that was, and, now that we're transitioning from the agriculture policy framework to “Growing Forward”, how is the work that's been done so far with the APF being tracked with the “Growing Forward” policy?