Public Accounts committee  There is some information on ministerial travel in one of the volumes. The comment was actually about proactive disclosure, which is posted on websites. Was the question about the public accounts, or was it about information on a departmental website? I just ask because of the re

Public Accounts committee  Once again, perhaps I could ask Mr. Nevison to comment on that.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I do.

Public Accounts committee  Once again, I think that's a detail that is better addressed to the organization.

Public Accounts committee  I'll invite my colleague from the Department of Finance to add something if he wishes, but essentially what we have determined is that the results you see are correctly accounted for. They reflect the administration of the income tax legislation by the Canada Revenue Agency; they

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask my colleague from the Department of Finance to respond.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question, but unfortunately we're basically prepared to speak about the summary level financial statements and the audit opinion thereon. As Ms. Cheng mentioned, that's the part that is audited. The remainder of the volumes have a great deal of information in th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before this committee to discuss the Public Accounts of Canada. For the 13th consecutive year, the Auditor General has issued an unmodified opinion, formerly termed “unqualified

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to ask Mr. Michaud to give us the presentation.

Public Accounts committee  I'm Jim Ralston, Comptroller General of Canada. With me is Tom Scrimger, who is the assistant Comptroller General, financial management sector; and Sylvain Michaud, who is the executive director, government accounting policy and reporting; and my colleague, Doug Nevison, who is t

Public Accounts committee  Gonzague, would you like to comment on best practices?

Public Accounts committee  I sense that perhaps the Office of the Auditor General was looking for something tailored to this particular monitoring task. As I've said, we've tried wherever we can to do the monitoring. It's really a question of whether or not we can achieve that monitoring by relying on some

Public Accounts committee  Hopefully, the earlier comment made by Mr. Guéranger points out that we believe we do have a fairly good handle on what's going on out there through the means that we have chosen to use.

Public Accounts committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I'll ask Mr. Guéranger to talk a bit about our monitoring of these efforts.

Public Accounts committee  I think I'll ask Mr. Guéranger to add to what I'm going to say if he so wishes. The first point to make is simply that we haven't necessarily put in place new monitoring mechanisms. The fact of the matter is that, through the management accountability framework, we do some regu