Public Accounts committee  It does still remain a major challenge. On the money, I'll leave aside the question of whether we have enough. I have no complaints about the resources the government is currently giving us to deal with mission security. The way this works with the Treasury Board is that often t

Public Accounts committee  Our goal, Chair, is that you won't read that in future reports of the Auditor General because of improvements in our planning capacity. For those, we would have—as for all of our projects—worked with our contractors in the implementation, but they would have been planned internal

Public Accounts committee  I would be delighted to. Indeed, I was wondering about asking the chair if I could make a comment on this. My experience as deputy minister in three departments now points to a tendency across government that I think would be of broad interest to the public accounts committee. I

Public Accounts committee  Again, we do audits and we put this on our risk-based internal audit plan precisely so that we have an accurate picture of the vulnerabilities in our performance on security. While I fully accept the conclusions that have been made in both of these audits—ours and the AG's—we are

Public Accounts committee  There's rust too.

Public Accounts committee  Chair, I will defer to Heather on this point, but I would say, with respect, that I don't think this is the forum for me to respond to specific claims in the suit. I don't say that to withhold information, but it is a legal action that has been taken that the claimants are perfec

Public Accounts committee  Chair, I think it is well known to this committee that project management has been a vulnerability across government operations for many years. In many places those lessons are often being learned the very painful way. At Global Affairs we are learning those lessons and have put

Public Accounts committee  First, I would say that we accept all of these findings and the implications of the findings. As I said, we found them ourselves in our own internal audit. Second, we make use of the resources that we have available to us at any given time, and we have to allocate those resourc

Public Accounts committee  We have a reduced footprint.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. I think you'll appreciate that I want to be careful about going into too much detail, but as far as we know, we have full information about where staff have been affected physically—what locations—and we take that into account. We have reduced the footprint to provide the

Public Accounts committee  I think you're referring now more generally—

Public Accounts committee  The head of mission is effectively the CEO for Canada corp. in that location. However, it is a collaborative effort between headquarters, which has to apply standard protocols and also has some objectivity of distance that can look at the data and the assessment and make final

Public Accounts committee  We're undoubtedly very concerned about many aspects of this case. The case clearly shows the limits that we face, in part because of privacy legislation and the fact that the issue is before the courts. In addition, we must note that we have limited knowledge of what happened an

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to say before giving my official remarks this morning that I am accustomed to sitting beside the late Michael Ferguson. Through you, Chair, could I extend our sympathy to Mr. Ferguson's family, but also to hi

Public Accounts committee  Could I make a short comment here on that last commentary?