The plot thickens.
I'm not going to keep going back and forth.
I want to pursue one other issue that disturbs me here—I'll bring it up again, and it has been brought up before—that involves a statement in your submission, Mr. St-Jean, and that is:
A senior official of my office and myself met with senior officials from the Office of the Auditor General, as part of its public accounts 2004 audit in early August 2004, to discuss the accounting treatment from both an appropriations (and I underline that) and financial statement perspective. A copy of the legal opinion and related analysis was provided to the OAG. We were subsequently verbally advised later in August by the Public Accounts audit team of the OAG that it had no issues with the matter.
I'm a little taken back that this statement is contradicted almost totally by the Office of the Auditor General.
My first question is to you, Madam Auditor. You've complained about minutes not being taken of other meetings. This was a very important meeting. Certainly if we had minutes of that meeting, they would answer a lot of the questions we're having here today. Are there any accurate or correct minutes from this meeting?