Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm very pleased to have all of this good work of the Auditor General and the departments here for review from an accounting perspective. I'm a little nervous publicly discussing our government's vulnerabilities and exposures like this, but I guess we have to do it. Some of you will understand why I don't like discussing it.
So I'm not going to drill down really deep, but I want to address one big question. It came out of the response of Treasury Board to the Auditor General's report. It signals kind of an ambiguity about who really is responsible for leading in these types of initiatives.
I'll just read from the recap in the schedule in the Auditor General's report:
current and future investment needs, and decisions related thereto, are developed and made by ministers and Cabinet, as well as by deputy heads under their authorities
That signals to me that there's a divided leadership. It's been mentioned earlier, but I haven't heard anything that signals to me that a particular minister or a particular cabinet decision has said, “Get on this case. Do it now. Here's the leadership.”
So can I assume—and I'll direct this to the secretary of the Treasury Board—that that leadership, that directive, that engagement of the cabinet or ministers hasn't happened? Or is there some information missing to us?