Thank you.
As I was saying at our last meeting, before being rather rudely interrupted, the government has accepted the recommendation. The government has accepted the conclusions of the Auditor General's report. I want that to be on the record, both because it relates to the question I want to ask and because Mr. Byrne was seeking to obscure those facts at the end of our last meeting.
My question is for Mr. Guimont, the Deputy Minister of Public Works. It strikes us on this side, sir, that the Auditor General's conclusions relate to three main items. One is the sequencing of decisions. The second concern he had related to full life-cycle costs, which we've talked about at some length. And the third related to the whole question of a risk management framework for this unique project, which we have all agreed has characteristics that we haven't seen before in defence procurement in Canada because of the scale and nature of the project.
Could you, Mr. Guimont, outline for us how the seven-point plan and your oversight of the secretariat will serve to mitigate those three areas of concern that the Auditor General raised in his report and discussed with us at our last meeting?