Ms. Shirley Carruthers at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 15th, 2024. See this statement in context.

May 15th, 2024 / 1:05 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Planning, Finance and Information Technology, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Shirley Carruthers

I will just clarify the issues that the audit found.

First, in terms of the compliance of authorities, one of the findings was that the audit was unable to demonstrate that all of the necessary information was on file. To this I will mention that in a lot of these cases, it wasn't necessarily that the documentation didn't exist but more that when the auditors were looking into finding that information, the information wasn't readily available on file.

Maybe just—

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