Evidence of meeting #14 for Public Accounts in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was year.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Karen Hogan  Auditor General of Canada, Office of the Auditor General
Clerk of the Committee  Ms. Angela Crandall
Roch Huppé  Comptroller General of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat
Michael Sabia  Deputy Minister, Department of Finance
Nicholas Leswick  Assistant Deputy Minister, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch, Department of Finance
André Léonard  Committee Researcher

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Committee Researcher

André Léonard

I'm just going to start over again and see if the translation works.

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Bloc

Maxime Blanchette-Joncas Bloc Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC

It's working now. Thank you.

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Committee Researcher

André Léonard

With regard to reporting on the public accounts, we usually do prepare a report on the public accounts. It looks a little bit like the briefing note that we prepared, and we also add some quotations from the discussion that was held today, the issues that were raised. As well, we may have recommendations in it, so if there's something in particular that you would like to see in there, perhaps we could find time to discuss that. We ourselves can also think of possible recommendations. I'm thinking about Mr. Huppé, who was saying that there might be an opportunity here to think about changes to the public accounts, the presentation, etc., so we may have a recommendation in there as to thinking about that, discussing this issue, or reviewing the presentation of the public accounts. I'll defer to you, but if there are any recommendations that could be included in that report....

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kelly Block

To clarify, we will be doing a report that will be drafted by our analysts and presented to us to review and perhaps add any recommendations that we would like to from this meeting today. Is that correct? Okay, thank you very much.

Further to your point, Mr. Blanchette-Joncas, I will ask the clerk to look into what exactly the cause was of our losing translation, and we will work very hard to make sure that it doesn't continue to happen, although some things are beyond our control here in committee. We will provide you with that analysis for sure.

I note that we are very close to 12. If there are no other questions or comments, is the committee in agreement to adjourn?

Thank you very much. It was great seeing you. Enjoy the rest of your day.