Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Forster, can I refer you to the Auditor General's report, page 1?
There has been talk here today, and your response has been, “We cut 20 offices”, or whatever the number was. The 2002 report and the 2006 report of the Auditor General identify that there were systemic problems long before deficit reduction and closing new offices.
Can you explain why those systemic problems existed in those two previous reports? You seem to be hanging your hat on one statistic, which was cutting offices, when the problem existed in those earlier audits.