moved for leave to introduce Bill C-207, an act to amend the Auditor General Act (reports).
Mr. Speaker, the purpose of this bill is to allow the Auditor General to table reports of his work regularly so that parliamentarians and the people of Canada will have knowledge of what he is looking at in terms of the efficiencies and effectiveness of programs of government.
Currently the government gets one report a year because the law forbids the Auditor General from tabling more than one report. It is a huge brick and becomes a media event for about a day and a half and then everybody forgets about it.
It would be in the interest of good administration to allow the Auditor General to table reports whenever he or she feels they are appropriate.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)