Thank you, Mr. Baker.
Before we go to the second round, there are a couple of areas I do want to pursue, Mr. Baker.
I have to somewhat agree with Mr. Christopherson. I'm reading the performance report, and it's not what I'd consider favourable. There are a lot comments here about the lack of leadership, the lack of a plan, the lack of any kind of coordination. When you go back and look at the audit that was done back in 2005, you see that the auditor at that time made nine recommendations about emergency preparedness. I can appreciate that the department was established only in 2003, but still it was a coordination of other functions of government. The audit was done. These were recommendations that the agency or the department agreed to fulfilling at the time. You told Canadians that you would do it, and you didn't do it. And now when we see the follow-up, it's “unsatisfactory”, “unsatisfactory”, “unsatisfactory”.
Then the committee at the time held a hearing. We made six recommendations. Five of them came back unsatisfactory, that you haven't done it.
My conclusion, Mr. Baker, is that this is a department in some difficulty. But what really concerns me, and makes me quite annoyed--