It's very hard when we contact Canadian Heritage, for example, or when we don't get an answer or are redirected to more political stakeholders.
In some cases, there are also errors in the public accounts. For example, for some years, no amounts were recorded for the Canada-Québec accord, under which Quebec has received $68 million for the anglophone education system and for English-language instruction in francophone schools. It seems to me we would've heard about it if there had been no amounts for those years.
We tried to get information from both Quebec City and Ottawa, and it took a long time. In the end, the English-language services section of Quebec's Ministry of Education confirmed that the funding had been transferred in each year but that they didn't have the exact amounts. We ultimately got them though.
There do seem to be errors in the public accounts because transfers appear to have been made for a number of years for which nothing was recorded.
Do these kinds of errors often occur in the public accounts?