Thank you.
If I understand your explanation, the finance minister didn't mandate that he wrote to the Auditor General and asked him, in keeping with the spirit of other cuts, whether he would identify some cost-saving measures, and he did so.
In terms of how this came about, we know that the government hired a number of consultants last September to the tune of $90,000 a day, and they were to advise the government on how to cut $4 billion at the time, on an annual basis, to federal departments. I don't know whether those consultants were retained for an extra year, but they had the potential to be retained for an extra year.
Did those consultants contact the Auditor General? Do you know whether their analysis in your department was what led to these particular changes in oversight being recommended by the Auditor General?