I'll take your time.
We had a couple of questions raised the other day by committee members. In the private world, if you have benchmarks, if you have markers, then you can measure how fast one gets to a particular spot, or if indeed you actually get there.
Today, I'm hearing that you're giving us assurances that everything is great, but that you don't have actual benchmarks. You make allusions to internal audit committees, to internal improvements, but everything you've said so far strikes the objective observer as...perhaps we don't need the Auditor General. If everything is working fine, according to the Comptroller General's assessment of how the departments are producing--i.e., performing, giving us a performance--and how they're following process and how they are giving us appropriate controls, am I wrong in thinking that perhaps you don't need the Auditor General to tell us whether you're doing a good job or not?