Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I think the analysis of companies is a source of information, but ultimately I think officials should take whatever opportunity they have to seek out additional information, which Industry Canada did in part. But they should also get assistance to help challenge the in

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, that would be our advice to the Government of Canada, to our colleagues, when it comes to the planning.

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure we're giving policy advice; however, we are suggesting that—

Public Accounts committee  —when it comes to private corporations coming to government asking for support and assistance, it should be incumbent on the companies to ensure that all stakeholders have already made whatever concessions are required before asking for public funds.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as my colleague Mr. Jennings just stated with respect to the commitments, Industry Canada has been following up on the commitments. It has received the reports and has ensured that the commitments have been followed. That was a major condition with respect to the negot

Public Accounts committee  I believe that would be a fair assessment. Our critiques were about the amount of effort that went into the analysis.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, in paragraph 5.46 we make reference to the $4 billion that had been set aside in an escrow account; $3 billion of that money was to be used for the pension funds within GM Canada and $1 billion was to have been paid by GM Canada. Once that $1 billion had been paid by G

Public Accounts committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. I believe that's a fair assessment.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I agree with what you say. I would make reference to paragraph 5.88, which is our conclusion: ...we concluded that Industry Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, and Export Development Canada managed the financial support to the automotive sector in a way that

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we did not do any audit work related to the number of jobs that could have been lost nor the amount of money that would have been lost in tax revenues if both GM and Chrysler had gone out of business in Canada. The information we have here is the information that we p

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the committee for giving us this opportunity to discuss chapter 5 of our report, entitled “Support to the Automotive Sector”. It is in our 2014 Fall Report. Joining me at the table is Richard Domingue, Principal, who was responsible for the audit.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we don't know the answer to that question.

Public Accounts committee  Some of the factors may be that some of the veterans may not have access to a family physician. It may take time to get the information together that is required to support the physician's analysis or assessment. I don't know; it may take a few sessions to meet with the veteran t

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that's correct.