Thank you, Mr. Chair.
When we do audits, we are reluctant to tell departments and the government how they should be structured. So it is really up to CIDA's senior management to determine whether its operations should be centralized or decentralized. Of course, we included in the report statistics on the fact that few operations were decentralized at the time. We can see from the action plan and the remarks of the agency's president that there is a movement towards more decentralization. I think it is really up to CIDA to decide how to structure its operations. Oftentimes—and Ms. Biggs may be able to comment further—financial constraints dictate that operations are centralized rather than decentralized.