Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't really have anything to add. This was an illustrative example and was the situation at the time.

Public Accounts committee  I would just nuance that slightly to say it's not so much that there was nothing. It's the reporting that was inconsistent, and the measures used would change from year to year. That said, and to your specific point, there was a number reported in the last horizontal initiative

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. There were no benchmarks established for the initial ships, so those schedules were really the result of the commitments made by the shipyards. We do go on to point out that in the ships projects for the future, there has been more benchmarking. There ha

Public Accounts committee  I will just say that we didn't speak to maintenance. What we spoke to was life extensions and the need for those. Certainly, because ships are not being produced on one time frame, they need to extend the lives of existing ships so they can continue operating until the ships are

Public Accounts committee  We did not do any comparative work with other organizations at any level of detail. We were focused on what reasonable expectations were for the Canadian Armed Forces themselves, and the results we got from that.

Public Accounts committee  I guess I can add a little bit. We were asking for the information that justified the high-priority cases. We would find instances where there was no explanation or, also, instances where, on reviewing the information that was provided to us, the units themselves said, yes, we

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, if I may, that was a percentage of members who had received initial training on the carbine the first time around.

Public Accounts committee  First of all, we don't know, and the RCMP doesn't know, in fact, whether they have enough carbines. One of our observations was that they don't have a methodology that they've implemented that allows them to know what the correct number is. We observed that they bought more than

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  No. The cases included in our study sample are the cases of individuals who were released during this period. This has nothing to do with whether the individuals returned to a correctional facility.

Public Accounts committee  That said, in paragraph 6.75 of our report, we refer to a study conducted by Public Safety Canada in 2003. This was quite a long time ago. However, the study, which included incarcerations in provincial and territorial institutions, showed a recidivism rate of about 25%. We don't

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  When we looked closely at the 50 cases, we were trying to determine how often each offender was expected to meet with the parole officer. As Ms. Kelly was saying, different levels of supervision are required. In each case, we were trying to determine the level of supervision for

Public Accounts committee  The only observation I would make is that we didn't attempt to understand the motivation for the parole officers in meeting with the offenders in a particular pattern. We just observed whether it was consistent with the intent of the policy.

Public Accounts committee  We didn't attempt to understand why the parole officers weren't meeting with the individuals in question. On the time scale, the Correctional Service establishes the frequency of contact requirements that it says are required to properly manage public safety concerns and also to