Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I now have an opportunity to discuss matters with you. We saw each other quickly when the Auditor General tabled her report. I would like to take this opportunity today to seek some clarification.
Mr. Flageole, I'm going to summarize what you said, probably a bit too quickly. You said, in a nutshell, that the report on international cooperation and CIDA can be traced to the absence of a master plan to implement the commitments made in the 2002 policy statement. Finally, you mentioned that CIDA had agreed with your recommendations and that you believed and understood that, based on these recommendations, it had established a detailed action plan.
Does CIDA subsequently have to present you with a plan, by a certain date, explaining how it will remedy the operational shortcomings you uncovered? In all of this, we have noted that the agency had been really in a shambles over the past four years and that project management has been plagued by a certain degree of administrative slowness.
I would imagine that this cannot be done in two shakes of a lamb's tail, but did the agency make a commitment that it would submit an action plan to you? Will this plan be submitted by a certain deadline, or is it depending on the goodwill of the minister?