Thank you to each of the deputy ministers for joining us today.
I want to follow up on some questioning from Mr. Christopherson last Tuesday.
It says here that the Auditor General could not calculate the percentage of Global Affairs employees who received training because the department did not have the information needed to make the calculation.
To our representative from Global Affairs, I can imagine what it would be like if this were a CRA audit of one of our private businesses. If they don't have the information, we figure out a way to get that information from those individuals.
Why is this information not kept on hand? Was it misplaced?
In every area of the private sector and government in which I have worked, when there has been a previous request for something in the past, especially from the Auditor General, whether in this department or elsewhere, it is incumbent on the individual, the department, or the business to maintain that information and have it readily available at any point for an audit, because you never know when that's coming.