Public Accounts committee  As part of our process when we're making recommendations to departments and they are responding to us, we would have a discussion about how difficult or how complex it would be to implement some of those recommendations. Then the actual action plan and their implementing of it co

Public Accounts committee  I think, for the record, I will read the section of the report that deals with that. It is paragraph 2.82, which says, 2.82 Both National Defence and Public Works and Government Services Canada disagree with our conclusion that they did not demonstrate due diligence in their re

Public Accounts committee  Again, I can't provide an opinion on something we haven't done an audit of. What we've done is brought forward the issues and the problems with the process to date. We'd certainly expect that this would be information the departments and the government would use moving forward.

Public Accounts committee  The critical thing is that we identified in this chapter that there were some significant issues with the purchasing process, the decision process. They speak for themselves. We haven't done a follow-up on the helicopter chapter and that detailed comparison. I think the items we

Public Accounts committee  Certainly we had cooperation from the Department of Finance, and they agreed with our recommendation, so we didn't have any concerns in that matter.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We made one recommendation. In this chapter, we found problems in three areas. Information was prepared too late or was incomplete; the Department of National Defence overestimated its ability to properly handle the unforeseen, and there were problems in

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the reason we didn't make more of a recommendation in this chapter was the point in time that we were actually looking at it. The fact that we simply identified that sufficient due diligence was not applied is information that needs to be taken to

Public Accounts committee  The first thing to remember is that in a special examination we look at crown corporations over a cycle. We look to see whether they have systems and practices in place to ensure that assets are safeguarded and controlled, that their financial, human, and physical resources are m

Public Accounts committee  We have a section in the report on what we found. It identifies the good practices in the areas of improvement that are required. That can be found in the chapter.

Public Accounts committee  Again, really all I can speak to are the conclusions in our report, and I think our conclusions are very clear. They are a very frank assessment of what happened and where there were problems. We feel our conclusions were the right conclusions based on the evidence. The departmen

Public Accounts committee  I can't speak to the list of individual witnesses. On the question about why the departments disagreed with our conclusions, they did agree with the facts, but the reason they would have disagreed with the conclusions is something that only the departments can answer.

Public Accounts committee  I can't remember each and every item. Certainly what this chapter was about was how well the Canada Border Services Agency was enforcing controls at the border for products that have been identified as needing controls at the border. I can't speak to any specific product. This

Public Accounts committee  Certainly we made a number of recommendations in this chapter, and the department agreed with them. They have put timelines on many of their responses. Those are the timelines that the department has committed to, so we would expect that they have put the necessary thought into s

Public Accounts committee  I will check to see if we have those exact numbers, and if so, we'll report back.

Public Accounts committee  We identified that after the Parliamentary Budget Office presented its estimate of costs, that was the opportunity National Defence should have taken to bring forward the full costing information to Parliament. They should have identified that. The way to respond to what the Parl