Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses today.
I want to just talk a bit more about the register. In the Auditor General's report, in February, she says in the preamble:
While the Department has continued its efforts to improve the Social Insurance Register...its progress is unsatisfactory. It has set no goals for the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of the data, and its measurement of data quality has been unsystematic and limited in scope.
And it goes on to say, among other things, in more detail:
...Service Canada currently has no goals for data accuracy, completeness, and reliability, and we consider the lack of systematic and comprehensive measurement of the Register's data quality a significant risk....
And you highlight this weakness again today.
Mr. Simeoni, I think in your presentation you referred to the register, indicating:
...we are setting goals for Register accuracy and completeness to understand how effective our measures.... To do this, we are first determining the current level of accuracy of key data. We will then determine the potential cost....
I would like to ask the Auditor General if she has anything further on that, but then I'd like to ask Mr. Simeoni to give us a schedule on how this is. In terms of setting goals, that seems pretty basic, in the sense that we can't go where we need to go if we don't know exactly where we are.
So I'd just like some more detail on those two things, if the Auditor General has anything else to add on that. If not, then I would go directly to Mr. Simeoni.