Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Auditor General, summarizing your report here on McKinsey contracting with this current NDP-Liberal government, your frustration seems to kind of exude through the pages in a few ways.
I note, for instance, that on the recommendation side, you basically said that many of the recommendations you've made on previous reports would have relevance to this report, so you're not going to repeat them. Fixing the problem is a simple matter of adhering to the rules. You noted that it's not complicated; there are rules in place and the rules are just not being followed.
It highlights the fact that pointing out the problems is one thing, but the government has to actually be serious about implementing the solutions.
It's frustrating for me to hear the discourse in response to your reports. It's always very deferential, publicly, from the government, saying that they listened and they thank the Auditor General for her work, etc. Then there is a failure to implement the basic solutions and we have a situation where you have a report coming back saying, essentially, that you don't need to repeat yourself; refer to previous reports for recommendations that would have addressed many of these problems.
What can be done to get at this core issue of governments paying lip service to recommendations you've made, but then not taking the implementation seriously?