Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for joining us today to both respond to and provide more information regarding the audit that was completed by the Auditor General and his team.
I want to ask a couple of follow-up questions and then go from there. The comments just today from the Auditor General start out with a couple of things that were done at least to par and at least within the expectations that people would have, and then they bridge into the timing at which Canadians who are held abroad perhaps have to live with or live without in terms of being contacted by one of our consular representatives. The first question probably should be to the Auditor General and then I'll go back over.
Mr. Auditor General, when you say that detained Canadians were not contacted within 24 hours, is there a way to determine whether they were tried to be contacted, or was there no way to actually measure if there was any emphasis put on that by our people on the ground?