Yes, I might add to that.
The former auditor general, Michael Ferguson, started to signal the pressures for resourcing in the first quarter of 2017-18, in the quarterly financial statements.
He said:
increasing audit and service costs from a funding base that is not increasing will require reductions in products or services, or both, in the near future.
In the summer of 2017, he made his initial budget request to the Minister of Finance. We worked through the government system and we received approximately $8 million in additional funding in budget 2018. That represented only a portion of what Mr. Ferguson asked for. He went back, sharpened his pencil and asked for $10.4 million for budget 2019 and we didn't get anything.
What that will mean.... We don't have the ability to reduce the mandatory work that we do, the financial audit work that we do, so the place where we have discretion in terms of the amount of work we do is our performance audit work. That is the work, of course, that this committee focuses on.