Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette:

Honourable senators, for a number of years now I have been working with the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas. We work with the entire continents of the Americas — North America, South America and Central America. We have to deal with CIDA. I have seen our staff exhausted because they sometimes have to renegotiate the same contract three times.

In terms of reporting — and this point was mentioned also in the previous report of the Senate on CIDA administration — the demands for specific analysis of projects, et cetera, are beyond any requirements in the private sector.

Will the leader at least report to us what specifications CIDA requires? Are the requirements state-of-the-art in terms of administration? Everyone we speak to in this country about CIDA requirements in terms of financial reporting find the requirements are beyond the imagination and certainly not according to best practices. I want to ensure that the federation has not been subjected to standards that no one else is applying anywhere in society.

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