Mr. Speaker, it is exactly these audits, this monitoring, that we are talking about. Three successive audits in a row have come to the same conclusion. The problem is still systemic and it is still in this department. They have not fixed a thing.
This raises the questions: Why does it take access to information requests to get the government to release audits to begin with? Why has the Minister of Human Resources Development withheld 30 separate access to information requests from the official opposition, in contravention of the access act? Why has the minister in charge of the Canada Economic Development Agency ignored his own internal audits which say that he has lost control of departmental spending under his control?