The government has suggested that for every dollar spent in program review and program efficiency evaluation, it saves over a hundred dollars.
Mr. Ralston and Mr. Wiersema, would your view be that the internal audit function is probably the best and most effective way to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of programs within the Government of Canada? And does your audit function actually help the government achieve some of those results?
I ask this in light of the fact that we're now paying an outside consultant about $90,000 a day to be able to provide that function. It would be my anticipation that the internal audit function within the Government of Canada would be a very, very sound basis on which to make those decisions instead of an external consultant at that cost.