Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to go back to the questions I asked last week about mould. Could you tell me what has been done since the Auditor General's last report? This question is specifically for Ms. Woods and Mr. Stewart. Based on your answers, aside from wanting to form a committee in order to develop a strategy, what you have done is distribute fliers and literature. In doing so, you were hoping that people could solve their problems by themselves.
I am worried about something in the Auditor General's report. And I quote: “Mould contamination, liable to cause respiratory illnesses, continues despite a strategy being implemented”. So there was a strategy already in place. It stresses that “the three federal organizations had not allocated additional funding to address mould as a result of the strategy, had not determined the magnitude of the problem... Moreover, because the organizations had not developed performance indicators, they did not know whether the strategy was making a difference.” So it doesn't look like there was an accountability process or evaluation of results.
Could you tell me whether the strategy currently in place and the steps you want to take will be coordinated? Could you also describe the steps? If the department coordinates this, I would like Mr. Wernick to answer that question. If not, I would like an answer from Mr. Stewart and Ms. Woods.