In regard to the department's response to the Auditor General's report, it's worth mentioning that there were two recommendations. The first was that the department should use an integrated and consistent process for recording, tracking, and prioritizing all technical issues for possible legislative amendment. The second recommendation was that the Department of Finance should develop and implement a plan to address the current backlog of necessary technical amendments, and it should regularly develop and release technical amendments, including those that arise from comfort letters.
As I indicated in our appearance last week before the committee, since then we have introduced a new database for tracking legislative amendments. That database has been subject to an internal audit at the Department of Finance and has been found to be fully functioning. With respect to developing and releasing new packages of technical amendments, additional packages have been prepared for ministerial consideration and in fact were released in November 2010, October 2011, and the most recent was released in December 2012.