Mr. Chairman, I'd like to start by telling the distinguished members of this committee who are seeing me for the first time that I am the spokesperson of the Bloc Québecois for Indian Affairs.
We met with the deputy-minister for the first time yesterday. He was with Mr. Prentice and he answered several questions. I share Mr. Kristofferson's remarks, although I do not share completely his aggressiveness. However, I might also become as aggressive as him in the future because everything is related, Mr. Chairman.
The Auditor General, Ms. Fraser, has produced an extremely good report which I hope she will talk about in the next few minutes. Yesterday, in the Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern development, we were able to put questions to the minister and to his deputy but he had not read the report. That is a problem.
I would have liked the deputy-minister to be here today because I have several questions to put to him. I understand that he was appointed only last week and that he is not yet aware over all the issues. That may be but I thought it would be important for him to be here this morning.
We should not necessarily postpone the meeting since I'm sure the Auditor General is extremely busy but I believe that the committee should meet again with the deputy-minister and the minister for them to answer our questions about the Auditor General's findings. There are some extremely important conclusions in this report and the department has been equivocating for more than four years. We're not talking about two weeks but four years. Thank you.