The committee's work this session has been dominated by follow-ups to Auditor General reports, with Karen Hogan appearing at nearly every second meeting to present findings on RCMP recruiting, federal pay modernization, First Nations programs, the international student program, military recruiting and housing, and accessibility and climate resilience. A recurring theme across these audits is that departments set targets or priorities without the data, measurement systems, or implementation capacity to meet them: the RCMP never knew how many officers it needed and missed processing targets for 97% of applicants; Indigenous Services distributed over $6.5 billion in grants without knowing whether they reduced socio-economic gaps and made unsatisfactory progress on over half of 33 recommendations; IRCC investigated only about 4,000 of over 153,000 flagged non-compliance cases; and the Canadian Armed Forces fell roughly 25% short of recruiting goals while lacking training capacity. Witnesses from the audited departments generally accepted the recommendations and pointed to action plans, reorganizations, pilots, and new strategies, while disputing characterizations of their records—Deputy Minister Kovacevic stressed progress against baselines, Deputy Minister Reza cited a 66% reduction in the pay backlog and 98.6% pay accuracy, and Commissioner Duheme disputed that his mandate amounted to 1,000 new frontline officers. The Auditor General and her office consistently pressed on missing cost estimates, shortened timelines, and the absence of outcome measurement, while deputy heads emphasized that many fixes depend on negotiations with bargaining agents, co-development with First Nations, or multi-year construction and hiring cycles.

A second cluster of meetings concerned Crown corporations and central financial institutions. The Canada Infrastructure Bank defended its repayable-investment model and its record of 108 projects and 315,000 jobs against Conservative questions about executive bonuses and BC Ferries' offshore procurement and Bloc questions about low Quebec investment, with the CIB disputing the Parliamentary Budget Officer's characterization of partner funding and agreeing to table provincial breakdowns. Bank of Canada officials explained the roughly $10 billion in quantitative easing losses as bookkeeping entries with no transfer of government funds, projecting accumulated losses offset by mid-2030 and remittances resuming thereafter, and declined to answer monetary policy questions, prompting the committee to invite the Governor or Senior Deputy Governor. Canadian Heritage officials described a $2.1 billion budget that is 90% grants and contributions and defended the arm's-length independence of the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages during a special review into anonymous allegations, while acknowledging that high demand has reduced funding for some community festivals.

Witnesses agreed on several broad points—that attracting applicants is not the military's or RCMP's core problem but processing and training capacity are, that standardization and data quality are persistent weaknesses, and that climate adaptation spending now saves money later—while disagreeing on the significance of the progress claimed. The sharpest exchanges were over accountability rather than facts: whether the CIB's bonuses were warranted given few completed projects, whether Deputy Minister Fox's ethics report warranted acknowledgment of wrongdoing, whether the pay system's slow progress reflected insufficient ministerial attention (which TBS's Bogden rejected), and whether the RCMP's flexible posting plan had worsened vacancies in some regions. The committee also spent time on its own process, adopting motions to request an expanded Auditor General audit of the international student program and a follow-up study on Benefits Delivery Modernization, writing to the Treasury Board on modernizing section 13 of the Auditor General Act, and debating but not resolving a Bloc motion on IT contract management documents and a motion concerning the Minister of National Revenue and the City of Laval.

Over time, the emphasis has shifted from the substance of individual audits toward the machinery of accountability itself. Earlier meetings focused on program findings and departmental responses; more recent ones have featured the Auditor General's repeated calls for legislative clarification of her access to information, particularly solicitor-client privileged material, and the committee's willingness to formalize follow-up studies and document requests. The same departments and officials recur across meetings—National Defence appeared on both military recruiting and military housing, Indigenous Services on both the fiscal relationship and the follow-up report, and PSPC and TBS on pay modernization—and the witnesses have been predominantly senior public servants, with the Auditor General and her office, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, and Crown corporation executives rounding out the roster.