Finance committee  When you say “regularly”, do you mean with respect to performance audits? I guess I don't really see it much differently other than it came from an order in the House. It might be somewhat different in that some programs that we focus on are really within one department. This has

Finance committee  We have been engaged with our fellow supreme audit institutions across the world and within the country. I believe we have had several great conversations, and continuing ones, with the Australian National Audit Office, as well as the provincial auditor general offices. We do thi

Finance committee  The audits you're referring to for Interpol and UNESCO are done on a cost recovery basis. They are the annual financial audits for those organizations, which we undertook after consultation with Global Affairs Canada many years ago. It is part of a strategy to ensure the Auditor

Finance committee  That operating system was one of our operating systems. It functioned very much like DOS and used F key functions to navigate across the screen. I'm very happy to tell you that a couple of weeks ago we transitioned off that system. It makes many of us happy that we don't have to

Finance committee  I did raise it, I guess, in order to provide a little bit of clarity to that. To go back to the motion, it did say all programs within COVID and all the audits that we were intending on doing. As an independent audit office, it's very important to be able to have the choice to au

Finance committee  We're going to look at risk and at where we'll have the best impact and value, so yes, that is our intention. We just wanted to highlight that we can't look at what the motion said, which was all programs.

Finance committee  You are correct. Back in 2017, there was an initial request made by Mr. Ferguson. Some funds were received in 2018. It was about a third of what was requested. Then the $10.8 million was part of the second tranche that Mr. Ferguson had been looking for. As you mentioned, that wa

Finance committee  Three years is a very long time even without a pandemic in the middle of all that, so yes, it would be fair to say that it's significantly outdated.

Finance committee  I would absolutely agree with that statement. Many organizations are seeing some of the areas that maybe they would have not treated so well as being amplified throughout COVID-19, especially when it comes to the reliance on technology, the ability to connect and interact virtu

Finance committee  As a little clarification on that front, and an opportunity for me to let you all know, we did have a few audits ready to be tabled just before the pandemic struck. I wrote to the Clerk saying that on July 8 we will table those three reports that were sitting there. Then we had

Finance committee  That's correct. It's my understanding right now that there have been no special warrants issued, but should there be, yes, there would be an audit there.

Finance committee  Obviously, as we sat back and looked at the scope of everything that's covered by the response to COVID, a few programs stand out because of the magnitude of the dollars associated with them. Dollar amount is just one factor we look at when we decide to select the audits we look

Finance committee  You raise a very important question, as we try to tackle the timing of when we might want to do certain audits, when there is a program that has a two-stage tiering to it, sort of an eligibility criteria and then, depending on whether or not certain factors are met further down t

Finance committee  There are a few examples we can look to. There are provinces across our country that have an independent funding mechanism, and there are also the U.K. and New Zealand that have such a mechanism. While we can look to those to inform what we might want to come up with, I do think

Finance committee  When we received the requests to audit the investing in Canada plan and the COVID-19 response, other audits were under way, so we had to postpone a few. Instead of tabling them in 2020, we will be tabling them in 2021. In addition, as you pointed out, we had to cancel or, rather