Excellent. Thank you very much.
The final point I would make is that right now.... You know, 10 years ago, we had the Auditor General doing 28 audits per year. Now we have the Auditor General doing approximately 14 audits per year. Ten years ago, the budget for the Government of Canada was about $250 billion. Today, it's over $500 billion. In other words, spending has doubled and the number of audits has gone down by half, so mathematically that means that we're getting a quarter of the accountability we were 10 years ago.
The previous auditor general—Mr. Ferguson, I mean—never accused the then government of having shortchanged his budget, so this is really unprecedented. I'm hoping that the government will correct the shortfall that it has created, and you will have the finance committee as an ally in pushing the government to do that.
Let's move on to the COVID response audit. What is your sense of the areas that you would focus on? You've said that you can't audit all of the COVID programs—it's just too vast—but is there a specific area on which you would like to focus your office's attention?