Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much. Have a wonderful afternoon. Have a great day, everyone.

Public Accounts committee  All our performance audits are value-for-money audits. The terminology evolves over the years, and I'm sure at some point it'll probably revert back to value-for-money auditing. Whenever we begin to approach a subject matter, we spend the time needed in order to properly plan i

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure whether that's ever been the case. In my personal opinion, that might be something we might consider doing. As I mentioned earlier, I approach every audit very openly. I intend, if I'm appointed Auditor General, to tell this committee and government about the good, t

Public Accounts committee  I've been very fortunate to work with a very dedicated and engaged executive committee. Since we have all been practising physical distancing measures, we have been talking every single day about exactly those kinds of questions: What does returning to a new normal look like, wha

Public Accounts committee  I'll share my personal opinion, which isn't based on any criteria or facts that I can cite. Our office is doing well, but there are certain challenges I'd like it to overcome so that we can continue to grow, build our skills and improve our work and our audits. That way, we coul

Public Accounts committee  Our employees already had the option of working remotely. What's different for us right now is that we can't visit organizations to do our audits. But we're seeing amazing results: our employees are engaged, and they're getting their work done in spite of constraints imposed by t

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. As I said earlier, it's important for Canadians to receive the money they're entitled to on time. In any audit, we need to examine the risk of fraud. If we suspect or know that fraud has occurred, that increases the risk, which means we need to expan

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Should I be appointed Auditor General of Canada, I would be very happy to come and meet this committee any time you'd like to invite me, to respond about decisions I have made, talk about our office and talk about the work we do. It is incredibly importan

Public Accounts committee  As you know, the auditing field is evolving incredibly quickly when it comes to technology. I've had many discussions with representatives of accounting firms and other auditor general offices across the country, and we share our best practices. In our office, we use data analysi

Public Accounts committee  Well, technology is used in all of our audits. All of our working papers are electronic, and we store most of our data electronically. In the years leading up to our request for more funding, we sometimes had to make rather difficult decisions: either invest in technology, or hir

Public Accounts committee  I think we all have to recognize that we've all had to adjust the way we work. That includes making modifications to typical processes and typical controls, so absolutely we would expect to see that happening, but we would not expect to see the absence or removal of all of those

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I was the author of the Auditor General's observations, which would be published in the Public Accounts of Canada on an annual basis and are now published in our financial commentary report that supports this committee. We often found that when it came to processing p

Public Accounts committee  I believe that our past precedent of creating long-form audit reports that are very technical is excellent for technical subject matter experts to help refine service and program delivery to Canadians. As I mentioned earlier, I would love to approach and explore a way to reach

Public Accounts committee  Obviously for a legislative auditor and even more importantly, should I become Auditor General of Canada, it is not my role to comment on policy choices or decisions made by a government. I think we can all agree that some decisions are well received, some are not so well receive

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for coming up with that list of four audits. I thought I had it at my fingertips, and unfortunately I didn't. Those are the four that are currently under way, the four that were expected to be tabled in the fall of 2020, and that will be delayed, likely until sometime