I want to say thank you to all the witnesses for coming today.
My line of questioning will focus on the taxpayer dollar and the value for money, as I often tend to do.
Ms. Kovacevic, the Auditor General found that your department failed to implement over 50% of their recommendations. Her office gave recommendations, I believe between 2015 and 2022, to improve barriers in health; dental care; the big issue of safe drinking water, which has been in the news and headlines for the Canadian public for quite some time; and emergency services. All have not been successfully implemented, and yet, in that same period, your department increased its spending or budget by 84%.
On behalf of the taxpayer footing this bill, what was the money spent on, since it didn't provide the safe drinking water to communities that this Liberal government has made promises on for years?