Thank you, Mr. Ralston.
I'll take from that--I think you used the words “marginal benefit”, those two words--that you don't see a benefit, a major benefit, since you decided to use the term “marginal benefit”, to the Auditor General doing across departments.... But I guess I would go back to the statement that was made by Mr. Matthews, who talked about costs approaching $300 million, give or take.
I'm not quibbling about whether it is $300 million, $310 million, or $290 million, but part of the statement you made about the costs, when you talked about it, is that part of that cost is a systems issue. I believe what you said was that inside of what your financial controls are now, if you were to do the audit through the Auditor General, you would need upgrades to the systems--I'm assuming that by that you mean computer systems--that presently don't actually give you the information to do the audit.
So I guess there's an obvious question for me to ask. If the system isn't going to do it for the Auditor General, how does it do it for you now?