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Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I think this seems like a very reasonable amendment, by the simple fact that the number of sports at the Olympics is always changing and tends to be expanding every four years. I remember a time in my life when curling was not yet an Olympic sport, and that raises the question: If we ban activities that are not yet Olympic sports, how are these activities and sports ever going to evolve into Olympic sports if people don't have the opportunity to participate in them?

I think it's very reasonable to broaden the scope of this particular clause. Let's allow people to train and to hone their skills. Then when these activities do become Olympic events, we'll have a leg up and some extra medals for Canada at Olympics time.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

For the benefit of those of us on the committee who are new, and that includes me, I wonder if you could offer an explanation as to the significance of the date of June 11, 2015. Was that the last day that Parliament sat before the election? Was that the anniversary of some particular event? Why do you suppose the drafters would have chosen that particular date to insert into the bill?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you to all the witnesses for being here today.

I would like to follow up on the OAG's return-to-work policies and work-from-home policies.

Ms. Hogan, I believe you said that the employees in the Office of the Auditor General are working in the office at least thirty-seven and a half hours per month. Is that correct?

In recent weeks and months, we've seen a push to bring back other federal government employees to work more and more in the office. As we have more and more federal government employees returning to work in person, are we going to see the Office of the Auditor General's employees mirror that return to work as well?

I would like to turn to some of the audits that you have planned for the upcoming year.

I see that you have four audits planned for the territorial governments. I will admit that I wasn't aware that your office audited the territorial governments. Could you elaborate a bit on what you have in store for the audits of the territories?

Do the territorial governments have their own public accounts committees that review your audits, or will that be done by this committee here?

I read that 80% of the reports that were presented to Parliament in the 2021-22 fiscal year were reviewed by parliamentary committees, and 100% of the ones tabled to this public accounts committee were reviewed.

Can you give us an idea of what audits and reports you produce that are reviewed by other committees besides public accounts?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I would like to circle back to the performance dashboard that your office has up and running now. Can you give us some background about whose decision it was to come up with this dashboard? Was it mandated by government? Was it all an in-house decision? I am very curious.

That was my next question.

For example, in the report on emergency management in first nations communities, we've seen that some of those recommendations are very similar to the ones from a decade ago. They never seem to get acted upon.

I'd be curious to know how far back in history you are going with this dashboard. Can an average Canadian see how these recommendations sometimes seem to sit there for years and years?

As you're well aware, this committee spent a considerable amount of time in these last few weeks dealing with the vaccine contracts, which certainly involved a great deal of confidentiality issues, with parts of contracts redacted and those sorts of things.

How will this public dashboard for Canadians handle issues of sensitivity and confidentiality like the ones we saw with the vaccine contracts, for example?

What was the cost of the performance dashboard?

If we could get an actual dollar figure provided to the committee in writing, I would appreciate it.

We also heard a few weeks ago from the Treasury Board about its strategy to move more IT systems to the cloud. Is this performance dashboard one of the systems that was done in the cloud, or was it done in-house?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I would like to thank all the witnesses for being here today. I would also like to thank you for all your work on this issue. I think all parties and all members can agree that creating a more inclusive transportation system and a more inclusive society for persons with disabilities is certainly very important. According to the audit, progress has been made, but there's always more work to be done.

With that, I would like to start with the witnesses from Via Rail. On page 14 of the accessibility plan, training for managers and executives as well as client service staff is spelled out. I am wondering if the witnesses from Via could clarify whether accessibility training is mandatory for managers and executives as well as client service staff.

There are two things. Seventeen per cent of managers and executives did not take the accessibility training at all, according to the audit; nor did 3% of client service staff. How is it possible that so many people were missed, given that it's mandatory?

Could you explain how it got missed in the first place? Did someone just miss an email here and there, or was there a lack of communication to make it understood that it was mandatory? Could you just shed some light on how it came about in the first place?