Finance committee  Thank you for your question. My work as commissioner is part of the Office of the Auditor General's performance audit work, so that's where my funding comes from. In the past few years, the former commissioner conducted six audits. I, however, plan to conduct just four, and they

Finance committee  Yes, indeed. The spending and design of the CERB was the other main area that I think we were going to mention.

Government Operations committee  No, thank you. That answer was complete. I have nothing more to add.

Government Operations committee  Definitely the two most significant audits we had on track to audit in the past year, which had to be delayed, were an audit of cybersecurity and an audit of protecting Canada's north. We mentioned both of those audits to the public accounts committee last June when we were app

Government Operations committee  In terms of infrastructure, we did do an audit of sustainable infrastructure in the community context in, I believe, 2017. We've also, of course, done infrastructure audits over the years. I would say that the economic action plan work we did in 2010-11 would have been our most

Finance committee  I think I'll answer that one. I don't have any blinding insights for you right now. It might be something that our audit teams can look into. If we can get back to you with some ideas, we will.

Finance committee  Yes, the work that is done on environmental and sustainable development matters within the Office of the Auditor General is part of the performance audit practice. The reduction in the funding available for performance audits has a consequential effect on the audits that I can de

Finance committee  Data has been a constant theme for our audit work over the last number of years. The importance of good data to support decision-making is paramount and critical to having the best results for Canadians, from our perspective anyway. Obviously, we recognize—and the secretary of t

Finance committee  I will add a little. Fraud risks are always part of our planning process, and when there is potential for errors in these kinds of programs, we will look for that in our audit work. I think Mr. Ricard was referring in part to an audit of EI overpayments that we reported to Parli

Finance committee  First of all, I think it's worth noting that the audit we did on fossil fuel subsidies was conducted after the government had already committed to eliminating the inefficient subsidies. I would add that our work focused only on that point, and not on the government's policies. M

Finance committee  Indeed, the economic action plan work that we did in 2009 and 2010 is probably the most instructive, at this point. To give you a brief history, in March 2009 then auditor general Sheila Fraser wrote to the secretary of the Treasury Board to discuss what expectations we would h

Finance committee  Right off the bat, I think we were clear. We wrote to the government early on to say that while we recognize they need to move quickly, it's important to ensure that decisions, rationales and processes are properly documented. Of course, we'll be looking at the same ideas in term

Finance committee  At this point, it would be too early for me to comment on that. Typically, with the audit work we do, we look at the projects the government has chosen to fund. We would end up looking at whether the funding has been provided to the recipients that should have gotten it and in th

Finance committee  We do know about the recent investments that have been announced. That will most likely be a portion of the work that we will look to be doing in this audit.

Finance committee  We are working diligently on the infrastructure audit right now. As Mr. Ricard mentioned, we have prioritized the investing in Canada plan audit and the COVID audit, and that is the reason we delayed all the other work we had on the forward audit plan. At this point we are accep