Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses.
Both the Prime Minister, in answers to questions in question period, and Treasury Board officials have invoked the Auditor General in their response as a way to assure Canadians that...I think her office is the most trusted office in the country, maybe second to the Treasury Board Secretariat. I'm not clear what specific approval or validation the Auditor General has given to this process. In our reading, we find previous auditors general, and perhaps even this one, being quite critical of the vote 5 process in the pre-approval of spending that's not specific.
What specifically did this Auditor General say that approved of this vote 35, this extraordinary vote?