Thank you.
I had the opportunity to speak with the Auditor General when she appeared at public accounts last week and then at INAN earlier this week, so I've had some conversations with her through committee appearances.
There was a pretty extreme level of disappointment and frustration with everybody at the table at that point. In fact, the Auditor General, in her opening comments, said, “Many of the issues we are raising today in this audit were findings in our 2013 audit of emergency management on reserves. I’m frustrated that almost a decade later, there has been little to no improvement.”
I made the comment at other committees earlier that this is not an Ottawa bubble thing. In my community, this is a people on the ground thing that affects the quality of lives.
My next question is simply, what was your initial reaction when you read the report?