Skepticism around here is good, Madam Auditor General. I find with the Treasury Board, they call themselves the manager of government, of the departments, but they don't follow up. They issue all of these regulations, rules, policies and so on, but they don't police them. That's why I believe internal audits should be at the Treasury Board, not hidden away in some bottom dungeon of a department that really, as we found out in the sponsorship scandal, was blown away and ignored even if they wanted to blow the whistle. I think the Treasury Board needs a serious wake-up call so they can really hold government and departments to account, because they're the senior manager. Don't you think that would be an appropriate way for them to act?
On October 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.