Thank you, Mr. Chair. A number of jurisdictions publish their public accounts before us, as noted in the committee report. I just want to comment that although I do think this should be changed in the legislation, it will take some years to get there. You have to work with the Office of the Auditor General, all of the departments, to make sure we can move our public accounts back. There are some departments, the power corp, the health authority who are notoriously late in getting their financial statements in. There is also a number of subsidiaries we own, you know, things like McPherson Tent and Canvas which then get their own individual audit and then get rolled up. So there's kind of this process that needs to occur before the public accounts that every single entity everywhere gets its audit complete and its financials done. So there is a big chain of information that flows up. But we think with a coordinated effort, we can stop seeing people be late in their accounting and eventually move this up to three months. So I encourage the department to amend the act and then probably give a little timeline for implementation. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Rylund Johnson on Committee Motion 327-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2020-2021 Public Accounts - Public Accounts Release Date, Carried
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Committee Motion 327-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2020-2021 Public Accounts - Public Accounts Release Date, Carried
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