Public Accounts committee  As I indicated in my opening statement, we found that the female presumption program concept presents a challenge for administration, and not just for the agency but also for the applicant. There seems to be some sense of confusion about who the primary caregiver is. By law, th

Public Accounts committee  I could go, Madam Chair. Is the chair there, please?

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, thank you for this opportunity to discuss our report on the Canada child benefit, which was tabled in Parliament on February 25, 2021. Joining me today are Philippe Le Goff, who was the principal responsible for the audit, and Lucie Després, who led the audit team.

Public Accounts committee  We always do risk analyses for federal entities, which are required to maintain a healthy workplace that is free of harassment, discrimination or violence against employees. If any work in this area needs to be done with respect to federal entities in the future, we'll certainly

Public Accounts committee  I don't specifically recall a number of audits that we have conducted in that area, but we are definitely considering other audits for the future and making sure that, as we conduct our own analysis of risk related specifically to organizations within the federal government, we a

Public Accounts committee  Basically, as we do our audits, as has been said, any opportunities we have to consider some of the observations we collect during the interviews are considered as evidence and also would be considered to be included in our report. In this context, as Madam Gomez mentioned, we f

Public Accounts committee  Definitely. That's something that we are considering, so rest assured that GBA+ and the disaggregation of data will be considered in future audit work.

Public Accounts committee  This is definitely something that has been put on my radar as assistant auditor general to ensure that as we conduct our performance audit, we consider gender-based plus in the work we do in terms of specific criteria, and to ensure that as we look at some of the data, we properl

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure I understand your question, Mr. Blanchette-Joncas.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for that. If a complaint is to be considered and dealt with appropriately, an initial assessment is required. People need to know that if they file a complaint for investigation, it will be processed properly, given due consideration and correctly assessed. In the exa

Public Accounts committee  We did not specifically disaggregate the data to demonstrate the comparison you just made. We got the information only as it was presented in the report. We did not specifically analyze that information—male-female, for example, or in other ways.

Public Accounts committee  It could be possible for the future in terms of how we would conduct maybe future audit work—

Public Accounts committee  Definitely, we can go and look at gender-plus elements. We have no restriction in that area. This is even something that we will be pursuing more in the future and adding as part of any audits that we have under way to apply that specific lens.

Public Accounts committee  As you indicated, as we conducted the audit we followed a sort of sound methodology to conduct a survey. We have consulted our experts within the OAG in terms of the sampling approach and methodology around that. We also ensured that these percentages that you referred to were ap

Public Accounts committee  In our audit, we made recommendations concerning the importance of processing complaints consistently. Both organizations accepted these recommendations. We also recommended to them that complaints should be fully processed and evaluated. This also requires documentation to supp