Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To our witnesses here, in 2012, the budgetary allotment of the Auditor General's office was cut by more than 5% by the Stephen Harper government. Later on, Pierre Poilievre criticized the Auditor General's office for not doing the number of audits that it did in the past. Notably, in one of his media scrums, he mentioned that it does 14 of 28 per year—at that time in 2020.
Is there any connection between your capability in this file and doing audits? I'm just curious as to what capacity or amount your office is spending on this and what are the repercussions of that across the board. There have been other auditors general who have asked for significant increases in their budgetary allotments. The criticism that was levied against you by Pierre Poilievre was related to the fact that your budget doubled whereas the number of audits was reduced by half. I'm wondering whether or not there's any connection whatsoever with your capabilities in your office, or whether or not this effort here is going to compromise your capability in other audits in terms of staffing and commitment time.