Mr. Chair, I want to thank all of our presenters today. Their testimony is very helpful.
First of all I'd like to direct my questions to Mr. Ferguson, the Auditor General.
Sir, I do appreciate your opening comments. Could you give us the rationale? Usually your office conducts these performance audits with the idea of pointing out where the government can do better. Can you give us a little of the rationale specific to this? This seems to be more of a global issue rather than a specific problem. Could you speak to that?