Yes, you're very kind and very generous.
I would wholeheartedly agree with what Mr. Christopherson says. Our role here is to make government better.
For Canadians who are watching this today, what you've seen happen is that this week, first of all, our Auditor General has come to Parliament and, in an in camera meeting, provided his documentation on his spring 2017 report. We were briefed a bit there, in camera, and he then tabled the report, which becomes public for Canadians. The next part of that exercise, after he goes through explaining it to media, is the explanation of each one of these chapters, each one of these reports.
Today he has come to our committee to give us a synopsis of what's in here. We've had a very quick opportunity today to quiz and question our Auditor General and his team, because our job now is to call in departments that he has found in some ways perhaps lacking in some areas; they could do certain things better, such as collection of data and other things. Now we will bring them in.
We look at his recommendations, we look at our Auditor General's reports, and we hear from them, and then, so that Canadians understand this, we draw up a report with the recommendations of those departments. This is to help government, the government in power today, so that when they make a policy, they will expect that departments will deliver on that policy. Sometimes it moves very freely and there are no problems. At other times, it's more difficult. It's a very important responsibility for all members here to do our work, and to bring in these departments and hold them to account, so that whatever policy the government expects, departments deliver.
We thank you today for being here and helping us as we prepare to call these departments before committee to hear from them.
We are adjourned.