Mr. Chair, what this chapter that the Auditor General brought forward focuses on is one isolated case within a department that develops and administers thousands of contracts. The person who is responsible for this no longer works for our department. We have addressed this from a labour relations perspective and we have put in place two very strong oversight mechanisms as well as developing very detailed checklists. I believe that since 2006, and as a learning from that internal audit, we have made a step change in the overall management of our contribution agreements.
Can I go back and reverse an isolated situation? That's actually not possible historically. We've learned from the report, we've made further enhancements, but I stand by my opening statement that we have a very strong stewardship of contribution agreements.
Thank you.