Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the public accounts committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. We are pleased with the assessment of the Canadian International Development Agency in this report. For us, the observations made by the Office of the Auditor General represent an acknowledgement of the effectiveness of the work undertaken by management to implement the requirements of the Treasury Board policy on internal audit.

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon. My name is Jorge da Silva, and I'm the chief audit executive for the Canadian International Development Agency.