I'm not sure whether I am correct about this or not, but I believe that National Defence is one department that has a large amount of expenditures--or at least, if there are not a lot of them, they certainly deal with equipment that is extremely costly. And with Public Works and Government Services Canada, we're talking about buildings, equipment, and so on. When you audit this kind of department, I suppose you proceed compartment by compartment--the word “compartment” probably isn't right--or rather, item by item. In that context, I guess you make different choices.
On September 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.