I understand.
I used to be part of a past expenditure review committee. What happens is that you ask the departments and agencies to submit those areas where they would potentially reduce, so the Auditor General was asked to provide or to volunteer areas where they could actually reduce their costs.
So this process of the Auditor General reducing his audit function—or their audit function—of all these agencies, except for the CRA, came as a result of a request by the government for him to reduce the costs or the budget of the organization.