Thank you, Auditor General.
Thank you to all your staff who are here with you.
I'm looking at all these chapters. As an auditor, I know how much work goes into that. We see the underlying issues emerging year after year.
As parliamentarians, we try to set the legislative parameters under which the government is to operate. There is legislation, there are principles of operation, and there are best practices. We have to work with the bureaucracy to ensure that taxpayers' dollars are used effectively and efficiently.
You say there have been improvements, but there are issues that keep emerging. We have checks and balances, like you, to rely on. What can we do better as legislators to ensure that, despite the contracting practices and procedures that have been instituted, we make things better?
You talked about expenditure management, and you talked about the focus on new spending rather than ongoing spending. Because the ongoing spending has gone through its checks and balances, do people ignore it? Help me to get control of the wheel.
Was that short enough?