Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our committee. It's a pleasure to meet you.
I'm new to this committee and new to Parliament, at least this time around, so I'm going to ask a naive question.
In paragraph 5.74 of your report, you referred to past audits. In fact, you say that since the early 1990s you've identified financial management and controls as areas requiring attention. You refer to corporate-level planning being inadequate in regard to resource allocation, information not being available to decision-makers, a lack of identified results and performance data, and progress on data warehouses being slow. It goes back over a period of 15 years or more, and some of these problems seem to be related to the same kinds of problems you're raising in this report today.
In your view, is that unusual in government, that you can identify these things again and again and we're here 15 years later saying they need better management controls?