This office will always continue to do performance audits, and we will always do audits in areas of importance. But certainly we have a follow-up audit that's planned in 2011 on the internal audit function. I'm very hopeful that it will show that significant progress has been made in strengthening internal audit across government, and if that is the case, we have to recognize that in our work. We shouldn't be duplicating the work that is being done with internal audits. Quite frankly, where we have, if you will, an advantage or kind of a niche is being able to do cross-governmental audits, rather than audits within a specific department.
So if we look at something...for example, an issue would be food safety, where you have the Department of Health and the Food Inspection Agency; the internal audits could look at the processes within each one of those, but they don't do that kind of broader question. Many of our audits will bring in two or three departments on an issue. I think that's where we can really add value.
We're not there yet, and it might take quite a while before we get there. But if the internal audit function can really be strengthened across government, I would think that we would move more to those kinds of broader issues that involve more departments. We'd continue to look at what internal audit is doing and look at certain issues—like in National Defence. We will always be doing specific audits within National Defence, but maybe with some of the other departments we won't be quite as present within the transactions within that specific department.