Government Operations committee  I think the main issue would be one of timing. I'm not sure exactly when it would be by the time we got it into our process, went through the audit, and presented a report, even if we started right away. My concern would be that the timing of our audit wouldn't coincide very well

Government Operations committee  It's not something in our plans right now, but I know that it is part of our considerations. But we haven't made any decisions.

Government Operations committee  That would be an accurate statement.

Government Operations committee  I'm at risk of not understanding all of the technical parliamentary rules, I guess, in New Brunswick, but certainly my understanding is that the whole estimates would be referred to the committee of supply. The committee of supply would have a certain number of hours, and it woul

Government Operations committee  I don't know of any formal process for the way it happened, no.

Government Operations committee  I think you're right that, in general, people understand cash. I think it's very important, though, when you're dealing with an organization like the federal government that decision-makers understand where there are risks if you just focus on cash. The big one that comes to mind

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?

Government Operations committee  And you're three to four months in advance of that, so you have to make some assumptions about what's going to happen in that three or four months in order that you know what your starting point is going to be the next year. So I think it's just trying to understand that, what'

Government Operations committee  It's adding some uncertainty to it, yes.

Government Operations committee  Thank you.

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

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  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