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  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  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  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

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  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 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  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.