Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to Ms. Boucher.
I come from the finance sector. To sign a contract or to fulfill a contract in the finance sector when I was financing a project, information would be provided to me; I would audit, for lack of a better word, that information; I would then proceed with the contract and fulfill the contract.
It would be audited by somebody above me, and then at the end of the year we would have an audit of all of the deals we had done within our branch of service. Then all of that information would be given to the government to audit, and they would pick a certain number of files.
The culture that exists in the private sector is something we call CYA—“cover your asterisk” is the best way to describe it. Does that culture exist within your departments, or is the culture that exists right now more a case of “do this because you have to” rather than a case that “we need to ensure the quality of the information through the quality of the audit to ensure that our jobs are being done and therefore that we still have them”?