Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It's unfortunate that the Auditor General is not here today, because she would enjoy responding to that question.
We've built in the 15% potential overrun before we consider an audit to be over budget. The reason for this is that we put the quality of our audits first. Quality is job one. We do not want staff cutting corners on audits and sacrificing quality.
On any audit, there will be unexpected events. You'll find something you didn't expect to find, or you'll have a difficult discussion with management, and those unexpected events weren't budgeted for. We want the staff to do the job properly, and we have built in that 15% potential overrun before we consider it, so that we encourage staff to not sacrifice on quality.
Our performance, I believe, is improving. We have made it a corporate priority to improve our on-budget performance. We're not exactly where we want to be. I believe our target now is 80% for all of our audits across the board. We're getting closer. We continue to strive to work toward achieving that target.