The notice of motion that we provided indicates that there are 14 reports, or report follow-ups, that have not yet been reviewed by the committee, or that have been reviewed but not tabled, or else they have been tabled but we have not received a response from the government.
Work was done by the previous committee on seven of these 14 reports. These reports were prepared and tabled during the previous Parliament. Unfortunately, Parliament was dissolved before the government gave a response. So this motion involves ensuring that these seven reports, which deal mainly with reports presented in the fall and in spring 2010 by the Auditor General and on a report concerning the 2010-2011 Main Estimates, are tabled again, in order to obtain a response from the government on the recommendations.
Three of the following chapters deal with aspects of the Auditor General's report that were worked on, but the committee has not yet discussed the report. Three other chapters of the Auditor General's past report deal with aspects that the committee still needs to study, and the work for that still needs to be done; mainly more witnesses need to be heard.
The last report that needs to be done deals with the report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts tabled in 2010. So the notice of motion that is being presented is very simple. In October 2011, this committee should be able to start studying these reports so that we can do the work that was started by the Auditor General and the previous Standing Committee on Public Accounts. We need to make sure that this is done in a way that blends normally with the study of the report tabled in May by the Auditor General. We must proceed in a way that is consistent with the committee's traditions, meaning that we alternate between the previous reports that still need to be looked at and the report that was tabled more recently.
So we are asking that the work start in October, without setting a specific date. This will depend on where the committee is at then, but the work must be done. That's why this motion is being presented.