Thank you, Chair.
What we just heard from the Auditor General is, essentially, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
The government didn't have complete information on multiple projects, but we're going to charitably assume that they didn't exclude information because it was inconvenient. They didn't provide it because they didn't have it.
Following up on Mr. Desjarlais' testimony, Mr. MacLennan, I find the explanation that technology has changed as a basis for saying you don't have and haven't kept proper information for measuring outcomes somewhat incredible. Databasing has existed as a concept for thousands of years. It's just a matter of making sure that the new technology is able to receive information from the previous technology. However, if you never collected the information, if you were looking at the wrong indicators or if you weren't measuring outcomes-based indicators, that's not a problem of technology, surely. Is it?
That's a problem of policy and an administrative failure on the part of the government to say, “We need this information, we need it stored somewhere and we need to ensure that, as we roll out new technology, we are incorporating the information from the previous systems into the new systems.”