Finance committee  I'll say that we will, as usual, provide parliamentarians with top-quality audit work. We will do our best to provide timely information, so maybe not just one report or reports in a year, there may be interim reporting. I thank the committee for the opportunity to have this hear

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, if I'm allowed, I will add something. Very briefly, just to add to that storyline, it also impacts our capacity to do audit work in the territories. When we look at our past work and our future work in the territories, we're talking about mental health, correctional s

Finance committee  I'll answer in two parts. No, not in a formal way, because as you know, no budget, that I know of anyway, has been announced in terms of timelines and whatever. However, we've been talking to some players at some working levels—normal processes that take place—but we haven't got

Finance committee  I'll ask Mr. Hayes to speak to this.

Finance committee  I'm inclined to first say that there's a very important audit to be done just on that topic. As part of the audits we need to do right now in the context of COVID-19 and infrastructure, I'm not sure how much we'll be able to look at that aspect. Those are obviously areas where

Finance committee  At this point, obviously I cannot comment on the status of the checks and balances, the controls, because we haven't been out there doing the actual work. We are currently planning the audit work, but in regard to what you're referring to, those are the types of elements we've co

Finance committee  Yes, it is possible to audit in real time. Mr. Hayes talked about our audit of Canada's economic action plan, which was launched in 2008 or 2009. As I mentioned earlier, we can do interim reports, and we will not wait until the end of the process to present our reports. So yes,

Finance committee  I'm sorry, I don't think I have much to say except that the one that comes to mind—my point is that there may be others, so I'll ask Mr. Hayes to perhaps expand on this—is an audit of the initiative that was put in place way back then to invest in various areas in the country.

Finance committee  I guess all I can say is that I have been attending public accounts committees with the former auditor general, Mr. Ferguson, and then by myself, with other colleagues, as an interim, and have been loud and clear. The former public accounts committee, in its legacy report and as

Finance committee  Difficult again.... As I mentioned earlier, we are still somewhat early in the plan to decide which program we will choose for this year, let's say, and then maybe we'll decide that there's enough for the following year, and then, for those programs, what angle, scope and criteri

Finance committee  We had to inform Parliament through the Speaker in late March or mid-March that, given the conditions, we could not table our reports on supplying the Canadian Armed Forces, immigration removals and student financial assistance. Again, those three are ready to be tabled. Whenever

Finance committee  There was obviously some work. For example, we have three reports that were due for tabling in late March, but with what happened in mid-March with the pandemic, we've put that aside. So those three are ready to be given to the House. But we had to delay all other work that was b

Finance committee  I'm going to asked Mr. Hayes to speak to that.

Finance committee  As I mentioned in the opening statement, we planned this audit work. We want to look at it from two perspectives. If I refer to the COVID-19 audit, there are various elements. Some of the audit is to support individuals and some of it is to support businesses. It's important that

Finance committee  Again, as I mentioned earlier, it's too early to comment on specific transactions; I'm not familiar enough with all of the various elements. What I can say about the Trans Mountain component is that last year we issued our first audit report on their financial statements. We wi