Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming out.
I have a quick comment for Mr. Yeates. “CIC agrees with the Auditor General's recommendations”: that's a fairly standard comment that we hear, actually. Have you made this comment? Is this a standard comment that's been made?
What I'm wondering about is this. In saying that, have those comments and those recommendations been followed up on since the last one in 2000? Secondly, why are they being followed up on now? Which is good, quite honestly....
I have a second part. You've now developed an action plan that is taking us forward. I think that is great. I'm just wondering, why now? I think CIC has had years and years of problems, quite honestly, in terms of getting its act together.
Don't misunderstand me for my lack of bad words.... I understand the complexity of it, I really do, but it would seem now that there actually.... In fact, Mr. Yeates, as you said, it's a complex problem, but if we don't do this, we don't have a direction on which to base goals and objectives. Is that the thought process now?
There has been a significant push to actually get it together. Why hasn't there been before? Is there an issue about why these recommendations from 2000 on, for example, are just coming into play now?