Finance committee  To be sufficiently funded, we said to the public accounts committee that we needed $10.8 million.

Finance committee  Again, out of that $10 million, we got nothing.

Finance committee  We got $7 million in 2018, and nothing out of the $10.8 million that we asked for in the 2019 budget.

Finance committee  Sorry, Mr. Poilievre, I'm not sure I heard.... Are you referring to the COVID audit or the infrastructure audit?

Finance committee  That is something that obviously we need to do. When we audit that program, we're going to do it at two levels: the overall management of it, the overall coordination of it, the full big picture, and then a second layer that will address more audit-specific elements or components

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for inviting us to discuss the role of the Auditor General in examining the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With me today is Andrew Hayes, Deputy Auditor General and Interim Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. We ap

Public Accounts committee  If you're looking for specific numbers, I don't have all the numbers by memory.

Public Accounts committee  Like every organization, we had funding for the economic increase a few years ago. Some of the increase we still have to absorb, and we'll have to absorb forever the impact of not having gotten the economic increase for 2014-15 and 2015-16, going by memory, including the addition

Public Accounts committee  I cannot answer this question in detail because this audit has not been completed.

Public Accounts committee  So we can't talk about it, but we're working on it.

Public Accounts committee  The only progress we have noted since the audit is the action plan that was prepared for the Standing Committee on Public Accounts by the organization because a follow-up audit was not conducted. The only work we are doing in relation to the Phoenix payroll system is the work we

Public Accounts committee  Three or four figures come to mind because we have several fields of activity. Each year, we do about 90 financial statement audits and about 14 performance audits. We used to do about 25 of those audits a year before. Also, I think Ms. Hogan mentioned earlier that we do three to

Public Accounts committee  Basically, there's a direct link. If I may, I'd like to add a detail about the proportion of our budget as compared to government spending, which is not so good. Even when you add up the $10.8 million we are asking for for 2018-2019, we are at the same level we were at after ou

Public Accounts committee  One thing we always need, when we issue a report, is for the public accounts committee to have hearings with the department and have the office present at the hearing. That would make a big difference. It's very useful that the departments are brought forward to have a fulsome di

Public Accounts committee  It doesn't quite work like that. That comes out of the performance audits we conduct. Too often we find that there are issues with data quality. Sometimes that is driven by legacy systems that don't allow for capturing the data in a way that is very useful. Once we table the repo