Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Madam Auditor and the team.
I'm new to this committee and we have a lot of catching up to do, so I won't match Mr. Williams' knowledge or Mr. Murphy's knowledge.
I was looking at the Gomery recommendation because it was restoring accountability. In that Justice Gomery says: “Canadians are fortunate in that the great majority of the people who serve in Parliament and in the public service hold very high ethical standards. We must not forget that only a handful of government officials failed to live up to those standards...”. He then goes on to recommend things to redress the balance between resources available to government and those available to Parliament.
Having been an auditor myself, I see that in the accountability platform some suggestions were made that require you to follow the dollar. With 350 million transactions and $186 billion in revenue, etc., how do you propose to follow the dollar? What is the material value you put in, and how do you determine the parameters of your audit so we are assured that there are ethical standards and the money is not being misspent?