Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you all for your attendance today.
I'm pleased to be joined by my colleague, Irene Mathyssen, who is our critic for women's issues. She will lead our second round of questioning, so welcome to my colleague.
I want to focus in on the strong language contained in the auditor's opening statements. I've been on this committee for quite some time, and I can tell you it's very rare that the auditor uses language that is this severe and unambiguous, deliberately, to state, as she has in paragraph 12: “I have serious concerns with the lack of appropriate documentation...”. The next paragraph begins with “This is not acceptable.” If it's not acceptable to the Auditor General of Canada, it ought not to be acceptable to this committee.
I'd like to hear a response. I don't think I've heard a direct response from Madame d'Auray to the serious issues the auditor has raised and the way she has raised them, so I want you to revisit that for me, because we can't let this go. We're not going to let this go, so let's have at it.