Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks as well to the Australian team for assisting with this peer review.
I want to address with our Auditor General the question of the risk assessment, with the focus on fraud, because I always thought audits were intended to uncover the fraud rather than speculate in advance. It's almost an un-Canadian.... Maybe it's a culture creeping into a financial management system; it's an un-Canadian thing to start off assuming the worst about a financial system. If a Canadian is walking through the door and there are two people at the door, Mother Teresa and a career criminal, the Canadian would probably treat them both the same, whereas one's likely to steal your wallet and the other one's likely to give you a very memorable greeting. It's almost unconstitutional to start off assuming, or saying, “How many crooks and cheaters are we going to find in this particular financial envelope?”
I understand how practical and real that is, but how do you systemically insert that into your meeting agenda as you scope out what you're going to do?