Mr. Chair, I would say no, I don't think any of us were surprised by the results of this audit, because every year, of course, we do a financial audit of the department for the Public Accounts of Canada. As we note in the report, a number of issues have come up over the year that we have in fact reported in our observations on the public accounts. One, as I mentioned in my opening statement, is that the systems were designed for operational purposes, not for financial accounting—which brings all kinds of challenges. So we are in the department constantly, and even though we haven't done an audit specifically of this, I think we're fairly aware of the state of the financial management and control generally in the department.
On September 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.