Members might recall that in 2004 the government announced, as part of the initiatives to strengthen financial management in government, that departments were to have audited financial statements within five years. The departmental financial statements have never been audited. The first and only one to be audited was the Department of Justice, last year. A couple of other departments indicated to us that they felt that they were ready and that they wanted to go through the audit. We had discussions, though, with the Office of the Comptroller General, because this was an initiative that originally came from the Comptroller General's office, as to whether this was still a government priority. There had been no policy ever established on this. Some departments were moving ahead with it and wanted to do this, but others seemed to be quite slow in changing.
It's largely a question of systems issues. Quite frankly, the government does not seem to view this as a priority at the current time. So we asked why we would continue to work on something when obviously we would have to probably reduce our performance audits even more to do this work. We have clearly indicated to government that should they decide that this is a priority, and there is a policy, then we would be quite pleased, of course, to reconsider our position on it. Unless we get an indication from them, we don't think we should be doing it.