Thank you, Madam Chair.
Ms. Fraser, you described earlier some of the reasons for the huge cost overruns. They included opposition to the legislation, the provinces' deciding not to participate, and clearly some huge administrative problems with the program. From your report and from Mr. Baker and others, it sounds as if things have dramatically improved, that although they are perhaps not 100% where they should be, things have improved significantly.
As someone who has supported the goal of gun control, I recognize that deaths from firearms are down 500 over the period between 1991 and 2003, and that suicides are down, and that domestic violence is down, but clearly people want to be assured that the program is running well and doing what it's intended to do.
My view is that it's like having a renovation done on your house. If the thing goes way over budget, you're not going to burn your house down afterwards because the costs were too high. Clearly you've got a system set up, and it now seems to be functioning better. People work hard for their money; they don't want their tax dollars squandered.
My question is along the lines of Mr. Albrecht's question. We're here as elected parliamentarians, and we're looking at going forward. How can we do the best job possible to make sure we don't have to wait, Ms. Fraser, for you do to an audit to identify the major problems that took place after the money has been spent? How do we in good conscience use our positions, especially here through the government operations committee, to make sure the systems are put in place to prevent these kinds of problems in the future?