Public Accounts committee  It's running on DOS, and it creates all sorts of difficulties from both a security perspective and an operational perspective, because basically, they're not supported anymore. You can't turn to a supplier and get updates or get patches as we call them. That doesn't exist. So, th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for offering me a chance to say it without hesitation: They will be about supplying the Canadian Armed Forces, student financial assistance, and immigration removals.

Public Accounts committee  Well, I guess it depends on how you look at it. How we manage it is on a fiscal year, to align with the plan and the result report we have to submit, but those audits take anywhere between 12 months for a smaller audit and 18 months. They go beyond any fiscal year or calendar yea

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I guess so. I will maybe add this. As I mentioned earlier, we have an overall budget. We translate that into staff—individuals, people. That allows us to then deliver the mandatory work. Then, as I mentioned earlier, we can put the rest of the effort on the performance audit

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, it was 14, and maybe I can just clarify something here. That includes three audits for the territories. Those are part of the 14, and they include the commissioner's reports as well. I have a breakdown if you need it, but maybe that is sufficient for what you are looking fo

Public Accounts committee  Yes, ultimately it's the result of funding pressure, which forces us to make some choices.

Public Accounts committee  I cannot comment beyond what has already been published by the former Auditor General. The picture has been painted. It's obvious that there were significant issues that needed to be addressed. Earlier, I mentioned that, every year, during audits of the government's financial st

Public Accounts committee  When we voluntarily reduced our budget in 2011, we returned $6.7 million to the government, in large part by cancelling, through legislative changes, our obligation to perform certain financial audits. At that time, we also delayed some investments in technology because we felt

Public Accounts committee  Just to clarify, when we say we choose what to audit and how to audit, we're talking about the performance audit. It's basically risk-based. We analyze the various programs. We take the time to get to know the programs and the risk that comes with them. Obviously, at the end of t

Public Accounts committee  I don't want to take too much of your time, so I'm going to try something here. I may have information in our performance report. That's normally something that comes out of the hearing the committee holds on our planning and result documents. I'm going to go on memory here. Ther

Public Accounts committee  In terms of the needs today, that is $10.8 million. As a rule of thumb, it's probably 100 employees or something like that. It is significant. I'm sorry to keep repeating. As I said to PACP last year.... I know you were not there, but I'm just saying it was referred to before. We

Public Accounts committee  Not knowing how familiar members are, maybe I'll briefly give a fuller story. We made a first submission in the summer of 2017 for an increase to the budget of 2018. The request was $21 million in two tranches, because we can't absorb all of it at once. We got approval for $7 mi

Public Accounts committee  The second tranche never happened. It was not confirmed in the budget of 2018, so in budget 2019 we asked more or less for the second part of it, and we got nothing. Again, the result of that is putting pressure on the organization in terms of what we can do, and our capacity to

Public Accounts committee  We need to be ready and equipped to do that, including having the tools and training the people. As you said, way back then, the reduction was done on a voluntary basis at that time. Our systems were stable. Our audit tools had just been implemented. Since then, it's all out of d