I wasn’t asking for the Auditor General’s recommendations. Normally, when somebody is looking at things and you are looking at what they are looking at, oftentimes things jump out at you. I just wondered whether or not the department had, at this point, recognized that they have some deficiencies on their own without the Auditor General having to tell them that.
I wanted to ask a question with regard to the amount of money at the bottom of page 10-27 that talks to program delivery details. The amount of
money for income assistance programs actually is going down this year, ’13-14, as compared to the current fiscal year. We’re in a situation where we’re in a fairly large economic downturn. The trend that I’m aware of is that the requirement for income assistance and the number of people using income assistance has been going up as opposed to staying steady or going down.
Does this amount of money staying steady, actually going down just a bit, does that indicate that there’s been a change in that trend? Or is it simply are we kind of on a wish and a prayer that things aren’t going to change and that we’ll need more money?