Certainly I think the work the office does on financial statement audits is a piece of work we do that people are not necessarily as aware of. We do audits of around 150 financial statements. The one that gets the most visibility, of course, would be the audit of the financial statements of the Government of Canada, which are the Public Accounts of Canada.
A very large portion of the work we do in the office is auditing of financial statements, providing Parliament or boards of directors with the assurance that those financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and bringing to the attention of the organization any issues we feel need to be brought forward.
It's a very different focus from a performance audit. In a performance audit, what we do is set a specific objective to look at a certain question, really. We identify our own criteria around that, depending on what it is we are looking at, and then we present that.
We are anticipating that there will be no reduction in future years in terms of the number of performance audits we do. And it's the performance audits I think a committee like yours is most familiar with, because those are the things we come forward to discuss.