Mr. Andrew Hayes at the Public Accounts Committee

On February 27th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2020 / 11:30 a.m.

Deputy Auditor General and Interim Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General

Andrew Hayes

Thank you.

Indeed, we've made the request in response to the call that departments get for funding requests. We made the request in January.

I will mention that one reason why an independent funding mechanism is important to us is that it is awkward to work our funding through a department that we audit regularly.

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