Thank you for your report and for being here.
It seems so normal for us, as Canadians, to see the Auditor General seated next to the Deputy Minister of Defence.
Here we have our guests from Mali. Having visited the Congo in Africa just a year ago where the military is in different pockets of the country, very much in control, let me ask this question. What specifically about the defence ministry makes it more difficult to audit, and what should we as Canadians perhaps be concerned about in days to come?
You have been given access to all this confidential information and we as Canadians are given comfort that our freedoms are protected, that the military will never get beyond a certain level of influence, but do you have any comments on that? Was it harder to do this audit of the defence department than other departments, or could it become so?