We're doing what's called “scoping the audit”, which involves basically setting up a work plan. This may take a couple of months--Veterans Affairs has offices not only in Prince Edward Island, but also here in Ottawa and across the country--for deciding how we are going to do the work, whether we'll have to contract it out, whether it will be in-house staff that will do it, just how big the sample size will be, and so on. I'd say there's a good few months of planning.
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