Thank you.
I'm glad to be back on the committee. I was on the defence committee for a very short period of time. I enjoyed defence because I got to make a new friend, Yves Robillard. We had a very good time. It's a very good committee, non-partisan and working together. I hope we can achieve that here on this committee. I sense there are partisan jabs going on here.
The goal of the committee is to do good work, and the responsibility of a government is to make policy. The responsibility of the department is to carry out that policy. The responsibility of the audit today is to determine if the policy is being carried out and the department is doing what they are supposed to do.
The audit period covered from the beginning of January 2013 to August 31, 2016. Why did it not go to the end of 2016?