Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here today.
First I would like to congratulate you for all of the work you have done to integrate things on the Canadian side and with your American colleagues by the same token. This is a commendable task and it is good to see that it is being done, in light of what happens these days. I want to congratulate you and I hope that the work will continue in that way.
That being said, the report of the Auditor General points to certain issues. It is as though every group had an action plan—the message is clear and emphasized—but nothing is being proposed to measure progress to see if the objectives of the action plan are being met.
I would like to begin with the comments of the Auditor General.
Mr. Ferguson, when you did your audit, did the departments and agencies tell you why they didn't have any performance indicators in place at the time?