Public Accounts Committee on Feb. 28th, 2007

Evidence of meeting #43 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was estimates.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Chapter 1, Expenditure Management System at the Government Centre of the November 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Sheila Fraser Auditor General of Canada, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Wayne Wouters Secretary, Treasury Board Secretariat

David Moloney Senior Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

February 28th, 2007 / 4:20 p.m.

Secretary, Treasury Board Secretariat

Wayne Wouters

I would just echo the Auditor General's comments and thank you for your interest in this, because we do think it is a very important initiative. We don't say this too often, but we do very much thank the Auditor General for her report and her assessment of recommendations, because from our perspective, it has been very helpful for us in framing our overall advice to the government.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Shawn Murphy

Thank you very much, Ms. Fraser and colleagues at the Office of the Auditor General, and Mr. Wouters and Mr. Moloney. We certainly want to thank you, especially for the briefing. That was very helpful. We will be writing a report and filing it with Parliament in due course.

Just before we adjourn, members, I want to remind everyone that of course we were scheduled to come back on the March 19. That's the day Minister Flaherty is tabling his budget, so the meeting that day is cancelled. We're going to be back on March 21, and we've allocated one hour for the Place Victoria. Mr. André Gladu, the retired deputy minister, is going to be before us for one hour, and then we're going to go to reports for the second hour that day, and this will be that week.

If there is nothing else, we'll adjourn the meeting. The meeting is adjourned.