Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As you know, I am not a regular member of this committee, but I welcome the opportunity to be here today as a substitute.
My question is for Ms. Rempel Garner.
I sit on the public accounts committee and although it is not unusual of course for other committees to take AG reports, it is generally the domain of the public accounts committee. I'll go through a couple of my points, but one of the ones I'm hoping she can speak to is whether or not she has had dialogue with her respective colleagues about whether or not, this being in the realm of health, we will not be expected to look at this at public accounts or any type of dialogue that she might have had with her colleagues who sit on that committee for our benefit.
Obviously, traditionally the Auditor General is looking at reports in hindsight about how government can improve process. We're still right in the middle of this pandemic. We are in a situation where our ministers and health officials are still spending a lion's share of their day trying to respond to the needs of Canadians across the country. She said that she was more than willing to speak to some of the rationale. With the Auditor General's report, is the idea to bring the minister and officials before the committee to identify what had happened in the past and what might have been corrected, or is it to look at where we're going from here?
Generally, of course, we look at processes and then try to improve them. A lot of what would have been in the Auditor General's report is in the past. We are now here trying to deal with the present and the future, and I'm curious to see what the rationale is. Is it just trying to find out how the government had pivoted in those early days from some of the challenges that were noted in the AG report?
That would be what I'd be interested in. I'll wait to see if she is able to respond to that.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.