Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Going back to our first audit on the economic action plan, we identified a number of success factors. I think a big part of that was senior management attention. I think the senior bureaucracy was seized with this initiative. Sometimes in government you see early atte

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Comments about not being able to gather job information are in relation to one program, the community adjustment fund. I think it's important to separate that from the broader question of assessing the impact of the economic action plan on the Canadian eco

Public Accounts committee  For this program, I would agree with the member that you would expect the design to be done in a way that would allow for measurement. You would also expect the information to be gathered in that way. A lot of the economic thinking out there suggests that the impact should be cal

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm accompanied today by John Affleck, the principal on this audit.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity to discuss chapter 1 of our report on Canada's economic action plan. I am accompanied today by John Affleck, the principal on this audit. As you are aware, the economic action plan was launched in January 2009 in re

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for the question. I think I would preface anything by saying that there's great variety among first nations. Their sense of risk is what's important to them. We've certainly heard from some who tell the story you've just told, Mr. Chair. They wanted

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I don't have that information. As I said, we haven't done any audit work in this area since 2009.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. Gaps in any walk of life, whether it's environmental or otherwise, rather creep up on you. As life develops off reserve we create expectations—for health, for education—and once we start to supply and provide those services to people off reserve, th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that would be correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. As I mentioned earlier, we tabled a report in June that followed up on a considerable number of audits we did in this area. We're essentially saying that you can't get there from here. We're not producing the results that anybody likes, generally spea

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Fundamental change is what would make my little heart go pitter-patter.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks for the question. You raise a very real concern. We don't follow up every audit report we do, but we try to get the biggest bang for our buck. We invested a considerable amount of effort recently, towards the end of Madam Fraser's term, to follow up a large number of audi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I'm going to ask Mr. Barrett to help me with some of the details. First of all, I'm the Assistant Auditor General responsible for our work on aboriginal issues. I'll pass on the member's good wishes to the Commissioner of the Environment. He's a colle

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that too. In a great many of the audit reports we've done in the Office of the Auditor General, we've touched on capacity. It was interesting in the context of this audit, because we did see an appetite on the part of first nations to get the training so they could