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  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 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  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

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  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  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