I would disagree with that. I believe we have the oversight here. We have brought forward many witnesses as a result of failed audits. We have the Auditor General, who, of course, is responsible to this committee with respect to her audit, and this is our response to another audit.
The example you thought I was referring to initially was being studied at public accounts. As I indicated, this is another audit, which was announced in the media today and reported on in the media today. We at government operations have called on several officials before, both elected and unelected, in an effort to hear from them about these failed audits. This is something we make a normal practice of here in government operations—the review of the money, which has been, again in this case, poorly spent on behalf of taxpayers.
For me, this is almost business as usual, another task we would set out to do in hearing from these officials from the Department of the Environment, who have frankly failed this audit. I think it is very much business as usual for us, Mr. Chair, that, when we are made aware of such misspending, we want to take responsibility, recognize it and call in the officials to figure out why it happened.
I feel as though we've passed several motions similar to this one here in government operations. I see this as—unfortunately for your government—just sort of the next item of business on which it has failed, and therefore we need to get to the bottom of why. It's true that many of the answers always seem to point to the same systematic problems, but nonetheless, we cannot turn our backs or close our eyes to 625 million dollars' worth of poor spending, sloppy spending.