Thank you, witnesses, for again being here.
I go, Madam Fraser, to paragraph 2 in your original statement. I mention it only because I think it's important: “The issues covered in this report are typical of the challenges facing government today.” And here is the important part: “Our findings underscore the importance of thinking through the implementation challenges when policies and programs are developed or changed.”
That really outlines what the purpose of your audit is. We recognize through this audit that there are some things to change. When I read through the audit, I didn't see that anybody would say, no, I don't think these are things we should be doing. That isn't what we heard.
What we have found is that many of these situations have been ongoing, some of them for 30 or 40 years. So I want to say to the general public that I think we as a government, regardless of what government it is, need to be professional in all aspects, and when we see weaknesses within our organization, recognizing the size of government, we need to take steps.
What we have found in this report, from my take anyway, is that we have aspects that are moving more quickly than others. I guess that's likely part of what life is, unfortunately or fortunately. I'm wondering, though, when you do such reports—and I think some people may have been thinking something huge would come out of this, because we've been doing a lot in four years, quite honestly—would you find any major irregularities through this audit? Is that what would show up? When doing an audit like this within a particular department, would a major irregularity show up if there were one?