Thank you, Madam Chair.
I had a chance to ask some questions of Ms. Hogan at a previous meeting of the transport committee, so I'll be directing my questions today to Mr. Keenan.
My first question is around the pattern we are seeing. At a recent committee meeting, we were looking at an audit of pandemic preparedness, and what we saw was that an audit that was done several years ago pointed out a bunch of shortcomings and made a bunch of recommendations. The agency, PHAC, agreed with all the recommendations and committed to implementing them. Years went by. There was a follow-up audit. The recommendations weren't implemented.
Here we see a major disaster affecting a community in a profound way, because 47 people died. We see an audit that made a number of recommendations. I think the whole country was looking to the federal government to do everything in its power to correct the deficiencies that allowed that disaster to occur. Years go by, eight years. We have a follow-up audit, and the recommendations weren't implemented.
Mr. Keenan, I'm wondering if the Canadian public should be satisfied with that response and in general with this pattern of not implementing the recommendations that are made by the Office of the Auditor General.