Public Accounts committee  Certainly, the amount that was allocated was to support the Treasury Board Secretariat in their monitoring activities. They did collect data. They did prepare a database so they did undertake some activities, but we certainly felt that the end result of all of that should have be

Public Accounts committee  In terms of the challenge function and relating it to reallocations, as I understand it, what occurred was that there would have been a specific request for reallocations, and those specific requests would have undergone a challenge function. In the database I believe all they ca

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask Ms. Loschiuk to answer that.

Public Accounts committee  I think, Mr. Chair, to be able to answer specifically, I think it's really a question that the department needs to answer. Our audit only went up in this time period and at the end of this time period this method of reporting was stopped. They said they were going to do a pilot p

Public Accounts committee  What we reported in the chapter on spending on public security and anti-terrorism initiative was that there was $12.9 billion worth of budget allocations to some 35 departments and agencies. When we looked at the reports agencies made to Treasury Board Secretariat about their spe

Public Accounts committee  My understanding is that the reports were given to Treasury Board Secretariat as part of Treasury Board Secretariat's role in monitoring these initiatives, and we expected that they would then be used as a summary reporting tool to Treasury Board itself. So all of that is interna

Public Accounts committee  Certainly there's the normal process whereby departments report their budgets and actuals across all of their activities, and that goes on every year.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, the Coast Guard agreed with all of our recommendations.

Public Accounts committee  The type of data that we referred to was information about the individual incidents, the reaction time of the coast guard and of the Canadian Forces. So they had captured information about the reaction time to incidents but we noted that they could make better use of that informa

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I can't really answer the extent to which the government needs to engage with industry, but certainly it's important for the government to make sure that the right aircraft are acquired that can do the job of search and rescue.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, there are a number of chapters here, and I think all of them contain significant information. Certainly if I go down through the list, I would say something like the status report on security in contracting contains some serious concerns, and I would also say that the

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to present our spring 2013 report which was tabled in the House of Commons last Tuesday. I'm accompanied by the assistant auditors general Neil Maxwell, Nancy Cheng, Jerome Berthelette, and Wendy Loschiuk. Mr. Chair, we also have other membe

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Not really, other than obviously when we were putting the chapter together we were having trouble getting all of that information as well because we recognized that the money was not just earmarked for cyber-security, it was earmarked for broader things. C

Public Accounts committee  We have Ms. Loschiuk to deal with the question.

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask Ms. Loschiuk to deal with that question.