Public Accounts Committee on Nov. 3rd, 2016

Evidence of meeting #31 for Public Accounts in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was year.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Public Accounts of Canada 2016

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Michael Ferguson Auditor General of Canada, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Bill Matthews Comptroller General of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat

Paul Rochon Deputy Minister, Department of Finance

Karen Hogan Principal, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Diane Peressini Executive Director, Government Accounting Policy and Reporting, Treasury Board Secretariat

5:25 p.m.

Executive Director, Government Accounting Policy and Reporting, Treasury Board Secretariat

Diane Peressini

A portion of the increase dealt with one of their asset retirement obligations for a liquid waste cementation project. Also, there were some assets transferred from Natural Resources Canada to AECL this year. That also resulted in an increase in what was booked by AECL. It was a Port Hope area initiative.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

TJ Harvey Liberal Tobique—Mactaquac, NB

Thank you.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

Thank you very much, all, and thank you for honouring the time on the 30-second questions.

I want to thank all our professionals—our Auditor General and comptroller and Department of Finance—for being here. We appreciate it.

In the course of today's questioning, there may have been an answer that you want to fill out a little bit more. Contact our clerk if that's the case; please feel free to do that. I usually say that even on the trip home, you may say, “I should have answered that differently.” If that turns out to be the case, please get hold of us again.

We appreciate your being here.

Thank you, committee.

The meeting is adjourned.