Thank you, Madam Chair.
Welcome again. Your comments, of course, are general knowledge to everyone, and I may preface my question with a comment, that it's not what you make but what you spend, whether it's personally, under corporate control, or of course within government.
I noticed our spending in the last six years has gone from $162 billion to $209 billion, representing a significant increase in spending.
With the duty and the responsibility of this committee being oversight, I don't think there is, other than of course the little attention we've paid to accrual accounting as being part of the process of oversight.... One of the main focuses of your latest report is managing this total...I don't know the word to describe our expenditure process, but it's just voluminous; it's huge. So managing that is crucial.
My concern is that we have weaknesses in the system, as you've identified. Do you see this as being more of an attitudinal weakness and/or a technical weakness, such as lack of equipment or a lack of systems? Or is it more of a human weakness, whether through abuse of the political process or because staffing is not up to par? Where do you see the main glaring weakness?