Yes, I can definitely tell you about that.
We discussed this last week. I had a chance to give a press conference with my colleagues Mr. LeBlanc and Ms. Hajdu because it touched on three points. So I had a chance to follow up on the report. We obviously thank the Auditor General and her team for their excellent work.
I would note that 213 projects were approved and financed by the fund, which plays a strategic role, and that 42 of those projects involved road infrastructure. So it can't be said that we aren't funding road projects.
The Auditor General essentially told us that the fund is working well, and she had two recommendations.
Projects are normally submitted to the group of experts or officials who work on the fund. They analyze them and approve some. They prepare a list and submit it to another committee. What the Auditor General said was that insufficient information had been provided when the projects were ranked. For example, no one knew why a particular project was rated 7.2 out of 10 while another was rated 7. Why the discrepancy? Projects should have been supported by more documentation, and we absolutely agree on that point. And that will be done.
The second recommendation was that there be better mechanisms for assessing results. Action had largely been taken to do this within the department at the time the Auditor General presented her recommendations. We wanted to ensure we were better equipped to assess the impact of those projects.