Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Auditor General, in your report, under “Planning Highlights by Product Line”, you have a section on strategic outcome and expected results. It opens with the following:The long-term strategic outcome of the Office of the Auditor General is to contribute to better-managed government programs and better accountability to Parliament through legislative auditing.
We would all agree that you've accomplished that. Obviously, to continuously improve on that would be something that is at the root of everything you do each day.
In your short-term and medium-term objectives, though, I noticed the objectives for both the short term and long term speak to engaging “Parliament, territorial legislatures, and federal and territorial organizations in the audit process”. Then on the medium term, you talk about “holding governments to account”. I think for those of us who had the privilege of attending last summer's conference on auditing and the procedures across the country, we work toward that with our colleagues provincially and territorially. I think that works very significantly to help benefit us in our jobs.
In the medium term you talk to ensuring “that the public is well informed about our work”. I wonder if you wouldn't mind talking to us a little about that and how you might hope to make that a reality. How do you intend to make that happen?