Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome back to our committee, Minister McKenna.
I'd like to start with the Auditor General's recent report on the Investing in Canada infrastructure program.
Minister, her high-level findings on the program and its effectiveness are pretty troubling. I imagine they were frustrating for you to read. I'll read a sentence from the section entitled “Overall message”. She states, “Overall, Infrastructure Canada—as the lead department for the Investing in Canada Plan—was unable to provide meaningful public reporting on the plan’s overall progress toward its expected results.”
How can Canadians trust that these massive investments are advancing the goals that you've laid out when even the Auditor General of Canada can't connect the dots?