Status of Women committee  It really depends on the urgency of the issue as seen by the committee and the government of the day. Should this be done? Well, it's been 20 years, so arguably it should be done fairly soon. That being said, would it be the top priority of the country? That's not for the audit

Status of Women committee  At present we do not have specific plans to do further work in the GBA area. We did an audit in 2009. This is a follow-up effort to see whether progress has been made and whether there has been some development and whether there might be issues we would continue to have to draw a

Status of Women committee  There is a description within the chapter that talks to the progress that has been made. Much of it is actually within the central agencies' areas. In the case of Status of Women, there has been development of the framework itself, for example, the GBA+ framework. They also provi

Status of Women committee  We're talking to the progress being made by the Status of Women, and they have to continue to do more. They're the body that can help. It's the centre of excellence and they can help people be sensitized to better understand what it means. What does it mean when we say we need to

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for this opportunity to discuss our 2015 fall report on gender-based analysis. Joining me at the table it is Richard Domingue, principal, who was responsible for the audit. Gender-based analysis is an analytical tool for assessing the gender-sp

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. The audit focused on reviewing progress in implementing GBA broadly across government as well as on looking at a sample of four departments. When we looked at broad-based implementation, we were looking to see whether the GBA or GBA+ methodology that

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the core we like to be able to provide you with information to help you discharge your responsibility to hold the government to account. When you look at that, the question becomes: what are some of the programs that are of significance and relevance to

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, the member is raising a very important question. Unfortunately, it is not within the scope of the audit, so we're not in a position to comment.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as Mr. Matthews has pointed out, the purpose is really to try to help parliamentarians understand the end-year use of the funds. If appropriation dates are going to serve that purpose, if they're going to be more meaningful in terms of what the financial performance of

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, from our perspective I think it would be an important inventory to have. First and foremost, you get a sense as to what kind of reporting burden you are putting on the various organizations out there. The schedule also helps them to anticipate when things might be comi

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we counted about 60 such recurring report requirements. There are ad hoc requests as well, so we're not counting ATIP requests or parliamentary requests in terms of information needed from departments and agencies. Working with the Treasury Board Secretariat, because t

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, that's not within the scope of the audit. We did not look at elements of that kind, so I have no comments to offer to you.

Public Accounts committee  I don't believe I have too much to add. I think essentially what we're not looking for is to lower the bar. It's trying to make it more efficient so that we continue to provide the same value those reports are supposed to provide, which is to help with monitoring, to help with

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's just to maybe help explain a point about the investment plan. I think with respect to what we saw, you'll see in paragraph 2.26 the help needs to be given more to the smaller departments and agencies. What we found from our survey was that about half

Public Accounts committee  That is correct, Mr. Chair. We did not audit the security practices. The audit focus is on the reporting requirement and whether those departmental security plans were formally approved. At the time of the audit, about half of them did not have an approved departmental security p