Government Operations committee  It's not covered up. Essentially, it depends on the type of information there is. If it's classified information, obviously there are restrictions to it. If it's not classified, because sometimes something can be classified for a while after it stops being classified, so then it'

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned earlier, there are conditions under which we will apply it, for example, if it puts at risk our members or puts the public at risk. Some of these situations are what we ensure for consistency. I think what you're looking at is how it's applied in a consistent manne

Government Operations committee  All auditors' reports are published on our agency's website. In addition, all reports of the Auditor General of Canada are published and are accessible to the public, after being presented to the appointed committee. I also want to point out that we have developed internal contro

Government Operations committee  As in the RCMP's case, every department has an internal audit committee that develops a risk-based plan annually. By year's end, those committees are capable of reviewing practically all the activities in a department. Although the audits themselves are not conducted in all the b

Government Operations committee  What information are you talking about?

Government Operations committee  That's good to know.

Government Operations committee  Essentially our process within the RCMP mirrors the one at PSPC. As I was mentioning earlier, the deputy commissioner who is in charge of the program has to provide the rationale, the justification and reports to the director general of procurement, who is responsible to provide

Government Operations committee  They will even challenge us, while we're having the discussion ongoing, so we have two sets of subject matter experts challenging the process. This provides me with a lot of confidence that the proper rigorous process is put in place to limit the use of the NSE.

Government Operations committee  It's very rare that the RCMP does invoke the NSE. I was mentioning the amount of procurement we've done. Through our system I tried to get the numbers for what we spent on NSE the last fiscal year, for example, but my system didn't track by NSE. It was a manual effort, so I don't

Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and distinguished committee members. My name is Dennis Watters and I am the acting chief financial administration officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about the RCMP's procurement activities

Public Accounts committee  That's a very good question. There were a lot of employees at RCMP before, and it is true that there was a high turnover. But I can assure you that it is no longer a problem. We have 31 auditors and only four have left over the past year. Of those people, three were RCMP members

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity to discuss Chapter 3 of the Auditor General's Report on Internal Audit, tabled in Parliament in June 2011. I am here representing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I fully agree with the findings and I agree with the recommendations of

Public Accounts committee  Hello. My name is Dennis Watters. I'm the chief audit executive for the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.