Mr. Chair, if I could be clear, it's not a question of capacity to audit; it's that we don't have a mandate to audit. We have a mandate to audit the federal government. The municipalities, for the most part, do have auditors and can be requested to provide, for example, audited information to whomever, depending on conditions that may be put into agreements. It's simply that we have to respect the different levels of government, their accountabilities to their people, the structures they have in place, and the audit regimes they have.
