Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to continue to our earlier discussion, Mrs. Fraser. You said that you do not have the expertise required to pass judgment on the contracts signed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and MDS Nordion.
If you, the Auditor General, do not have the tools required to carry out an audit and have to rely on AECL to do this, is this not like asking the fox to mind the henhouse? The corporation asking money from the government and from the taxpayers to do the study would the one that said the projects are viable.
You said that, as the Auditor General, you do not have the expertise required to assess those contracts. That being so, would it not be wiser in the future to demand that projects of this scale, with financial risks, be assessed by independent experts so that the government and the Crown corporation be able to make their decisions in the interest of the taxpayers?