Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would say this is a very significant achievement. First of all, there are very few countries that actually receive what we call a clean opinion. In many cases the auditors have some difficulty in certifying the accounts. As well, there are very few that have as long a history, if you will, of clean opinions. That is why we really do believe that the Government of Canada is a leader internationally in its financial reporting, especially since the government is doing its accounts on what we call the accrual basis, not the cash basis, which makes it even more difficult to do a lot of the estimations and to do a lot of the numbers that go into the accounts. So it is a very significant achievement.