As I mentioned before, the audit took place from April 2018 to June 2023. Obviously, within that time, the department was grappling with a lot of crises and events, including the global pandemic. If you think about the fact that we weren't able to locate some of our documentation, a lot of it stems from the period during which we were repatriating some of our foreign service officers from abroad to Canada, for example. In some cases, the contracts were put in place while those officers were in one location, and then the payment was signed when they were in another location.
I think it's also important to note that, within our department, we have been able to do a lot of updates to our IT system. Over the last 25 years, Global Affairs Canada, in our missions network.... Each mission has a separate repository to store its information. Information management has been a bit of a recurring theme.
I am happy to report that, due to our GAC transformation initiative, one thing that has been highlighted and that the department is working on is moving to one global platform for information management. This will go a long way toward helping our department mitigate risks where we're unable to locate documentation.