Over my career I certainly have had my share of working with audits, including with the Auditor General. I have sat on audit committees, including one now at Canadian Heritage, so I know a fair bit about the area. I do need to get a better understanding of how the audit world works at the Public Service Commission, because the organization has significantly changed its approach with the new direction for staffing. It's no longer doing entity audits. It has basically delegated to deputies the responsibilities for doing the monitoring and reporting on the use of the appointment authorities. The Public Service Commission is more concentrating on system-wide audits and using surveys such as the staffing survey to be able to see what the trends are and see whether there are some areas in which there are some problems. There is still the possibility of doing audit work on a specific organization if there is a reason to do that, but again, that's an area that I'm going to have to dive into very quickly in my new responsibilities.
On April 11th, 2017. See this statement in context.