See, there the government was trying to do
something differently and they were trying
to get people to do things in government differently.
The reason we got involved in that
is interesting. Because the very first budget
speech [i.e., in 1993] [. . .] made a reference
to our office doing direct assessments. [. . .]
We said, ‘‘whoa.’’ [. . .] We never knew that
Provincial Treasury was going to say this.
It was a complete surprise to us. (Office auditor,
January 1998)