Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to our witnesses for appearing before us. Congratulations on the many laudable achievements that have been noted within the Auditor General's report.
The impact of this work is to create efficiency, effectiveness, and economical use of public funds. I am struck by a particular government initiative right now to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and economical use of public funds, and that is the whole notion of the program review or budgetary cost-cutting exercise, which all departments must engage in. It strikes me as odd that the very organizations or groups that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and economical use of public funds are also being included for cuts for the sake of efficiency, effectiveness, and economical use of public funds.
The interim Auditor General appeared before our committee not too long ago and outlined very specifically to us, as a committee, exactly what cuts would be made to the Office of the Auditor General. He outlined $6.2 million by 2014-15, and 60 positions.
Mr. Ralston, I gave your office a heads-up late last week that I would ask this question. What the committee would like to know is if you would be able to outline, in a similar fashion, cuts to the Office of the Comptroller General—