Thank you, Madam Chair.
Last Monday, we heard from other officials from your department, and today we have a new group. The issues are the same: the safety of our border and trade with our neighbours, the United States.
I find it commendable that all these efforts have been made, in Canada and by our colleagues in the United States, to focus on these very important issues. Having said that, as the Auditor General's report indicates, there is still work to be done to improve the way we evaluate all the actions plans you have implemented.
I have a few questions for each group. I will start with the officials from Transport Canada.
I would like to draw your attention to the recommendation at point 1.40 of the Auditor General's report. I have the English version in front of me.
Public Safety Canada, CBSA, RCMP, and Transport Canada should “develop performance indicators that clearly measure the security benefits of the initiatives that they are responsible for, and measure and report accurate and reliable results against baselines and targets to be able to assess the security benefits achieved.”
You said you that you agreed with this and that Transport Canada would work with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority to develop a performance indicator that measures the security benefits of the passengers' checked baggage screening initiative, including the establishment of a baseline for measuring and reporting of results, and this action would be completed no later than January 31, 2017.
Am I wrong in saying that what you just presented to us is about the working group of December 2016, which you formed, and the performance indicators developed for March 2017 on border wait-time technology? This is the same thing; it has just been extended by a few months, right? Basically, you responded to the Auditor General that you would be providing this by January, so right now you don't have this. Am I correct?