Public Accounts committee  Right.

Public Accounts committee  I think it's fair to say that the general approach to budgeting and resource allocation in the government is to focus on the programs, to make sure that spending is for appropriate purposes and directed at useful ends. The choice of particular business inputs, whether it's profes

Public Accounts committee  I think central to your question was your observation on the reporting of losses. What I'd like to say about that is we see each year there's a certain level of loss reported that occurs in government. Again, there are a variety of reasons, some of them are accidental, some of th

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask my colleague, Mr. Matthews, to respond.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you noted, essentially the appropriation sets out an upper limit to spending and directs some general purposes to which the spending is meant to apply. Typically, I think the government does a fairly good job of planning to spend that money, but from tim

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good day to you and to members of the committee. Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before this committee to discuss the Public Accounts of Canada. I am pleased to be here in my new role as Comptroller General of Canada. With me are two memb

Public Accounts committee  Certainly.