Public Accounts committee  Probably the primary concern, the main thing, that we had to deal with was that because this was a unique approach to purchasing the aircraft, we recognized that the normal rules would not necessarily apply. That's why what the audit was about was to determine whether the organiz

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure that actually complicated the audit very much at all. The complication there was more in the fact that there were two pieces to the audit. One was that we were looking at Canada's participation in the U.S.-led joint strike fighter program. The other was that we were

Public Accounts committee  Thank you and good morning, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to be here to discuss chapter 2 of our spring report. I am accompanied by Assistant Auditor General Jerome Berthelette; and John Reed, principal. These two were responsible for this audit. This audit dealt with two aspects of

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  When we tested to see whether the controls on commercial imports were working at the border, we found we were not able to rely on the actual monitoring of the organizations themselves. That meant we had to go in and do the testing of the controls ourselves to gather the informati

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, if I could, I'll ask Wendy to answer that question.

Public Accounts committee  Again, in the process the important thing for us to identify was where there were weaknesses and where there were problems. We concluded that National Defence did not apply sufficient due diligence and that Public Works didn't provide the necessary oversight. I think the conclu

Public Accounts committee  With regard to the recommendation we made on the costing, we identified that there were components of the financial information that should have been included in National Defence's costing. We would expect National Defence to come forward with a costing based on everything they k

Public Accounts committee  We didn't specifically tie this audit to the underground economy. This audit was about Canada Revenue Agency's procedures and practices for identifying people who should be filing tax returns or companies that should be registering for GST purposes. We identified that Canada Re

Public Accounts committee  I don't have the details on the pilot project at the front of my mind. At the risk of getting it wrong, I don't think I can give you the exact details on it. We did identify that they were successful in putting in place some pilot projects that were providing them with a good ret

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be brief because I can't make any comment on that. It wasn't part of our audit.

Public Accounts committee  It's my understanding that costing information has been coming forward from the joint strike fighter program. I can't give you the exact specifics on what it was, but coming up with costing estimates has been part of the whole program.

Public Accounts committee  It's not a question I've given a lot of thought to, but certainly the critical thing is to make sure that any process, moving forward, takes into account the types of problems we identified here in terms of process, in terms of risk mitigation strategy, and in terms of financial

Public Accounts committee  We identified in this chapter that Canada Revenue Agency is getting a good return on its investment for the amount of money it's spending. We also identified that there might be some ways they could improve on that, but for the most part they were getting good return on their inv

Public Accounts committee  When we make a recommendation, it's then the responsibility of the department to which we are making the recommendation to put together an action plan, including a timeline for implementation. I wouldn't have any specific timelines for the individual recommendations, but that's w