Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the Auditor General and her team for conducting this important audit into what Canadians already experience and already know—that there is this growing concern of mismanagement and inefficiencies in the federal government.
I think the Conservatives do a good job in reference to categorizing the problem, which is this big, bloated bureaucracy, but we find that the other half of that truth is that it's actually a private sector entity that's continuing to bloat our expenses. Whether it's ArriveCAN or this particular instance, we see that private firms continually take advantage of the vulnerability of our federal public service when we know that federal public servants can do the work.
We continuously see flagrant disregard for rules from consecutive governments. We heard from our Conservative colleagues just now that they want to forget that they also were not following the rules. The report that you've tabled here is about 2011 to 2023. Rules were not followed. Those rules were important to make. As you said in your statement, those rules are in place “to ensure fairness, transparency, and value for Canadians—but they only work if they are followed.”
Would you say that those rules were not followed between the same period of time of 2011 to 2023?