Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Ferguson, you said that the departments are audited and that you submit your report after that. When your report raises several questions, department officials must spend a couple of difficult hours before our committee—the time it takes to answer our questions. After that, it's on to the next audit, and the next report.
Through your experience and your many dealings with other legislatures, have you discovered any methodology that could equip us with better tools? You check into things, you share your findings with us, and the department officials come and testify before us. What disappoints me is that, after that, we don't seem to have the teeth to hold the people in authority to account for their actions, with the appropriate consequences.
The topic of the reserve force pension plan came up a bit earlier. There is still no resolution in that file. Things continue as before, and it's not your fault. Perhaps you don't have the necessary tools to bring pressure to bear in cases like that and impose requirements.
Could you recommend some specific measures that could be used to correct such situations? We could then see whether Parliament could adopt measures that would equip us better. It seems to me that there's a step missing after the work we do.
Based on the experience you've acquired, could you suggest measures that we could put in place so we can be even more effective?