Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Those are good examples. Additional examples would be flood and erosion protection, feasibility studies and shoreline protection. The Auditor General mentioned culvert crossings. Elevating houses sometimes in flood-prone areas is another type of structural mitigation. There's a w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, that's a very good question, and that's the sort of question that sometimes is difficult to answer in an audit. When you compare what we found in 2013 and what we found again in this audit, it's obvious that the department had the best of intentions when it responded t

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, we focused on the actual projects that were listed, as opposed to how many individuals were impacted by each of those projects. That's not the way the data is laid out, so that information was not available in the data—

Public Accounts committee  From a historical perspective, we saw good things in the circuit rider program. Over the years, it was making an appreciable impact and improving capacity in first nations. However, as the Auditor General said, a lot more needs to be done to bring first nations up to the same lev

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, no, we did not do an assessment of the turnover rates for the 77. It would be fair to say that there was some turnover. As the Auditor General mentioned, that's a long-standing issue that we've seen in many audits, going back over several years. It points to the imp

Public Accounts committee  No, we were unable to speak to individual first nations during this audit, as the Auditor General has mentioned. We typically do that, but the reality is that a lot of first nations were dealing with COVID and the impact of COVID during the time period of our audit and it didn't

Public Accounts committee  It wasn't possible in this audit. However, when we did some earlier planning before COVID—we did long-term planning on where to focus future audit work—we did visit a number of first nations and their water treatment plants and spoke to their water treatment operators and their b

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm on my third set of headphones, so hopefully people can hear me this time. To our knowledge, there's no overall assessment of the total cost to fix this issue. As the Auditor General has mentioned, the government has provided a lot of funding in recen

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, [Technical difficulty--Editor] long-standing issues.

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry. I seem to be having some problems with my microphone. I don't know if anyone can hear me.

Public Accounts committee  It was collected, but it wasn't analyzed. The department had that data.

Public Accounts committee  Regarding the CRA data? No.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, no, it was a situation that for 80% they did know the end result; it was for 20% that they didn't know the end result.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, in our audit work there are a couple of issues that are, I think, pertinent to your question. The first was the issue of the data that the department did collect. There wasn't a lot of work done to assess how reliable, accurate and complete that data was. It's true t

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, what we found in the audit report is that although there was a requirement for a performance measurement strategy to be in place, there was not one, and such a strategy would indicate indicators about how to measure the success of the program and the data that would be