I'll keep it limited to contracting, because there are so many audits and recommendations that we issued. When it comes to ArriveCAN—and I will also bring in the work that we did on professional services contracts—we saw the departments in question act during our audit. They provided clarification, for example, on the use of national master standing offers while we were doing our work, so there was a swift reaction.
I have said throughout these two audits that I don't believe more rules are needed but that the existing rules need to be better applied. I'm very happy to see that training is happening and that individuals are taking it. Hopefully, they will apply it.
I still believe the government needs to take a step back. Over the course of so many decades of my office issuing audits and internal audits, or the procurement ombud doing work, we always add recommendations that seem to add more layers of rules.
It's time to step back and ask, “Do we have too many rules?” Rules have been overtaken by events. Should we simplify, perhaps, some of the complexity of the rules, so that everyone can understand them and apply them better?
I'm not exactly sure why all of these situations are happening. Is it for speed to move around the rules? Are there too many rules? What exactly it is needs to be ironed out, but taking swift action is always something we're pleased to see.