I would agree that there are significant problems here and that they need to be rectified. The department has undertaken to rectify them and is carefully managing a program to deliver on the plans to which we committed to the Auditor General. Across the entire 5,034 people who work at Transport Canada, at any point in time there are parts of the department and programs that are working excellently, and there are programs that are not working so well. Our internal audit function and the function of the Auditor General is to find the problems, to zero-in, to describe them, to bring transparency to them, and to improve them. We are absolutely committed to doing better and we could have done better in the past. I can't speak to what happened here more than twelve and a half months ago, but I can tell you that we are committed to delivering the highest level of performance possible, and when we find problems like this, we take them very seriously.
On April 3rd, 2017. See this statement in context.