Public Accounts committee  Under volume 3, you have a list of all of the categories. It varies from business management to informatics services, engineering-type services, health services. There is a series of about 10, 11 or 12 there that are broken down. It tells you the types of different professional s

Public Accounts committee  No, it doesn't include our in-house employees who work in IT. It includes the outsourcing to IT companies, but it also would include the services that, for example, SSC would provide. They would provide some IT services to other departments, so what we call internal professional

Public Accounts committee  I would have to actually follow up with the department to get the details. I can't say if it was normal. It depends on the situation or the circumstances of the damage and how it happened. I could definitely follow up, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  We don't have that number offhand. Again, we'll try to come up with that from our colleagues at the chief of human resources office to see if they have some kind of estimation based on average salaries.

Public Accounts committee  We'll be more than happy to check it out.

Public Accounts committee  We need to produce the public accounts respecting public accounting standards. We have direction, and we have to follow these standards in preparing them, so deviating from that is not an option, or else we would get qualified.

Public Accounts committee  We don't audit. She audits. I can tell you that the Auditor General obviously.... Correct me, but obviously everything in these public accounts is not audited. For example, in volume 3, there are informations that are produced, but everything that relates to the financial state

Public Accounts committee  As the Auditor General said, there's a series of steps that need to be taken. For example, the preparation of what we call the HTML version for the electronic piece...it needs to be accessible. What we're trying to do.... Maybe I should point out that this committee, two years a

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I'm pretty sure there has been an increase in the amount of taxes. Obviously, every year the Canada Revenue Agency has to go through a process by which they submit that provision. Also, the CRA, during the pandemic year, deviated some of their resources towards the delivery

Public Accounts committee  Free of political interference.... Well, I'll speak for myself, to be honest. I've been in this job for six years. I can say that it is a very technical exercise, and when I was a CFO in the department, I had the leisure of providing information from a departmental level and th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to say a few words about the Public Accounts of Canada. I will skip introducing my colleagues because you did a wonderful job at it, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the financial management community of the

Government Operations committee  I think the committee's already asking for basically the same type of information for—

Government Operations committee  The information that we will receive is necessary for us to conduct our review and analysis that will generate the report that we said we would do by June 30.

Government Operations committee  Super. Give us time to write the minutes but we will definitely do that.