Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I just want to put it on record that the reference Mr. Dent made to the individual who worked on this file no longer being with the government, there was no direct relationship between what occurred on the file and that individual being with our government. Just to be sure on that portion. Now, the third-party accountability framework portion is more the relationship that we would set up with the organizations from a government perspective to an organization receiving money. It's not the relationship between an employee working in the department and how they would account for a review of a file. That continues to be the internal workings of our departments and how they deal with their human resources. If there's a lack of understanding there or a process or ability to do the work, that has to be dealt with internally.
On the third-party accountability framework, once again, that deals with the government relationship with the organization accessing the funds. We're strengthening that and making it clear what we expect out of that partnership that would be formed when an organization requests funds from us. So there's that portion and, unfortunately, in any situation that we have, again it's when we come to this portion that we have to look at how we got to this and that's why this question process is a good one. We've seen at times there can be many good proposals brought forward to the table, that make sense, fit the program, and funds advanced in that situation. If an organization goes defunct within that year or in the year that they receive those funds, then it becomes more difficult to try to get the accounting for those funds and what those funds were used for. That's what we find from time to time.
The more problematic one, I think, is when we do have an experience with an organization that has received funds and not accounted for it and seemed to have got more funds. We do put that on the table so it's open to Members of this House to see that, and that is why we are going in the direction we are about strengthening our position as a government when we deal with organizations that receive funds from us. Thank you.