Thank you. I think we can leave it at that.
This Tuesday we are calling on the Clerk of the Privy Council because of a concern that our committee has. When we see audits and we see information isn't being passed to deputy ministers or to ministers, this is problematic. I think all parties recognize that, so we'll leave it at that. It's a very serious message that our Auditor General gave us in his last report, and one that we want to focus in on many times when we have different departments here.
We do want to thank you for being here and for coming and answering to the Auditor General's report and to his recommendations. We will be drafting a study of this meeting and of the information both from the Auditor General's report and from your testimony.
We would encourage you in a couple of ways. You've already committed to getting us some answers to some of the questions from Ms. Sansoucy and others, but if you leave here and you think, “You know, perhaps I could have expanded on this answer,” or “I could have given a clearer answer on that question,” please just submit that to our clerk, and we'll make sure it's included if it's relevant to our study.
We appreciate your being here, and we will be following up with the action plan. We typically do not say, “We've had the department here and we've had the group here, so now we won't see you until there is another audit.” If some of the action plan measures aren't being met in a timely way, you may well have an invitation back to our committee, which isn't all bad, but it may not be as good next time.
We will be suspended for one moment. I have one small item on committee business, just so that we can make sure that our clerk gets payment for a book that we purchased for a visiting delegation. We will suspend momentarily and allow the witnesses to make their way out.
Thank you.