Public Accounts committee  We made one very specific recommendation about preparing and presenting the full costing information, and they accepted that. On our assessment of whether due diligence was applied, we felt that National Defence did not apply sufficient due diligence and that Public Works should

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In this particular instance, the only recommendation we made in the chapter itself was around the costing information and providing that full information. The department agreed with that. In this particular instance, because our recommendation was so focus

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I really can't speak for what the minister may have or may not have done. I can't speak to that.

Public Accounts committee  In that particular audit, we wanted to find out whether Transport Canada was providing sufficient oversight of the safety practices of the civil aviation companies in Canada, remembering, of course, that Canada has an excellent track record of civil aviation safety and rememberin

Public Accounts committee  Yes, Transport Canada agreed with all our recommendations. They understand the importance of dealing with the weaknesses we identified.

Public Accounts committee  We identified a framework in place that is consistent with international requirements and norms. We identified that Transport Canada does go through a process of comparing Canada's regulatory framework to those international recommendations and that their surveillance methodology

Public Accounts committee  In Canada Revenue Agency's program for identifying non-filers and non-registrants, we identified that they assessed $2.8 billion a year in each of two years, I believe, in terms of taxes, interest, and penalty. I don't have the exact breakdown at the front of my mind.

Public Accounts committee  First of all, I need to be clear that National Defence did in fact accept our recommendation. They disagreed with the conclusion that we made. That's one thing. In this audit, we didn't specifically go back and do a follow-up on the recommendations that we made to National Defen

Public Accounts committee  Without doing a full analysis of what the government is proposing, it's difficult for me to say. Certainly, though, what's important is to make sure that the government now puts in place a process that is going to be structured and is going to have the appropriate scrutiny. Becau

Public Accounts committee  No, we didn't.

Public Accounts committee  The scope of our audit was to look at whether due diligence was applied in the process for making the decision to replace the CF-18. Briefly, that's what we were looking at—that decision process. We looked, really, at two aspects of the decision process. One was Canada's partic

Public Accounts committee  Certainly we felt that this was going to be an unusual type of project. That's why we felt that it would have been important for National Defence to bring in all of the potential departments, including Public Works, early on to set out exactly what the process would be to make th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The recommendation is contained in paragraph 2.77 of the report. Essentially what we are recommending is that National Defence prepare a complete cost estimate of the cost of acquiring the F-35 over the full life cycle of the jet. As is pointed out in th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to present my spring report, which was tabled in the House of Commons last Tuesday. I am accompanied by Assistant Auditors General Jerome Berthelette and Wendy Loschiuk. The first chapter in this report is about border controls on commercial i

Government Operations committee  I think the negatives were again primarily trying to understand...because you're trying to put a budget together for April 1 on, right?