QUESTION PERIOD — Finance

Senator Moreau, welcome back. I’m going to ask you a similar question to one that I asked your predecessor almost exactly one year ago.

For the past decade, typically, the Auditor General signed their independent report in September, and the government tabled the public accounts by the end of October. That, obviously, wasn’t the case last year, since they were tabled on December 17, coming very close to the end of the Financial Administration Act’s mandated tabling date. Your predecessor answered last year, saying the Treasury Board confirmed they would amend the public accounts production master plan and have the public accounts tabled by October 15 starting in 2025.

Well, the usual date and the new deadline have both come and gone. When will the public accounts be tabled?

Thank you. As part of your predecessor’s answer, he let us know that the tasks included in the master plan would be attributed to the organizations involved in the production of the public accounts, with specific timelines to meet the targeted tabling date.

Given that we haven’t met the new tabling date, are you able to identify which organizations have failed to meet the timelines associated with their tasks?