Thanks, Madam Chair.
It's great to see all our colleagues around the table, especially the people who have prepared the work for us. Ms. Hogan and Mr. Huppé, thank you for your work.
I'll give a special welcome as well to Mr. Sabia in his new position. Congratulations on your appointment. It's great to see you here this morning, as well.
There was lots of reading over the holidays and lots of stickies are now on the books. I wanted to draw attention to volume III, section 2, under “Supplementary information required by the Financial Administration Act”. Mr. Huppé, to pick up on the last comment in your opening remarks around losses of public property, on pages 147 to 163, it's showing 14,951 cases of loss of public property due to accidental loss, damage or destruction, with a total of $21,372,105 that aren't expected to be recovered. There were 3,616 cases of loss of public property as a result of offence or other illegal acts, resulting in losses of $1,127,128 that aren't expected to be recovered. Finally, there are 104,399 cases of loss of public money due to an offence, an illegal act or accident, resulting in an estimated $4,699,469 that, again, is not expected to be recovered.
That's a lot of taxpayer dollars that we are now not going to be able to recover. How does this compare to previous years?
This is for Mr. Huppé or any official.