Colleagues, I'll call the meeting back to order.
First of all, the minutes of the steering committee meeting, which was held on May 18, have been circulated to everyone. If I may, I'll highlight the four paragraphs.
I'll explain the first item. The report of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure deals with the report, the eight chapters set out in the report of the Auditor General that was tabled in November of last year. As you will recall, we went to an election shortly after that, and this committee did not have an opportunity to examine any chapters. When we look at the chapters, we're probably not going to get to many of them, if any.
Someone on the steering committee made a recommendation that the committee write to the departments concerned for an update on the auditor's recommendations that were set out, and we'll get a response from any committee. That's the first item on the steering committee.
The second item, colleagues, is we had a decision to make to recommend to the committee what chapters we would deal with in this committee. Of course, we all realize that we don't know exactly when the House is going to end, but we have to proceed on the assumption that we only have seven meetings left.
We had previously decided that we would have a special meeting to talk about some of the efficiencies of the committee, but we decided to prioritize the chapters. You can see that our first priority was the chapter that you just heard about, the second priority was the first nations, and then you can see it was the PWC acquisition of leased office space. We're positive that we won't get to the six of them, but we'll take them one at a time. Depending on the schedule, we may have to interpose one with the other if there is a problem with witnesses, but we'll certainly inform you of that.
The third item is especially important for new members who were elected in the last Parliament. In the last Parliament, this committee wrote an extensive report dealing with the accountability of ministers and deputy ministers. We made a number of recommendations, and the government responded. It's certainly my feeling and it's the feeling of other members on the committee that the response on certain issues was not adequate or we certainly weren't satisfied. We request that this committee re-table or re-submit our report and get a response from government on those certain recommendations.
The last item is that, following up on the meeting on the leak, we write the government for an update on the results of their investigation, which they indicated they were going to do.
Does anyone have any questions on the minutes?
