The Auditor General knows my personal and professional respect for him. I won't comment on the Phoenix audit. That's out of my swim lane, but I could indicate that I have had the experience of successful major projects and unsuccessful major projects. There are a wide variety of reasons for both. The delivery, for example, of the automatic enrolment of old age security recipients was a very successful project, a major one.
I can tell the committee, through you, Chair, that under both governments I have personally had the experience many times of giving ministers unwelcome advice and welcome advice, good news and bad. That is our responsibility, and deputy ministers are very well aware of that. It is not always a comfortable responsibility to carry, but we do understand and, in my experience, follow that basic responsibility to tell the truth to our political masters, to follow their direction but to tell them the truth and give them our very best advice. We will apply that commitment in this particular case, as in all others.