Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all very much for being here today. I am very pleased to see that you would like to correct what the Auditor General has identified.
My first question is for Mr. Ferguson, because this has come up regularly at our committee meetings for the past two years. In fact, it comes up in nearly all reports. I am referring to problems in the collection of computer data and the fact that the systems will eventually be unable to meet the requirements or what would be expected in a department. In each of the departments we have looked at thus far, there has always been a data management problem.
Mr. Ferguson—I know you get this question at nearly every meeting—, but is this due to a problem with the culture, failure to update systems that therefore remain stagnant? Are the findings from the data collected simply ignored? This is becoming a marked trend in everything we see.