Thank you, Mr. Armstrong.
Mr. Chair, as you know, the committee report contains 16 recommendations, but in fact, 8 of them target government operations.
The database is one of those eight recommendations, and I did think it was worth spending a few minutes on it to give an appreciation of how it might be useful to committee members in studying estimates. Before this database existed, you would have had to look at public accounts, main estimates, quarterly financial reports, reports on plans and priorities, and departmental performance reports to get this flavour of information.
It is not quite a year old yet, the database. It has come a long way. We still intend to add additional things to this as time goes on, so it will continue to grow, but we are quite proud of this tool.
This is only one of the eight recommendations that were targeted at the government. We are happy to take questions on the database or any of the other recommendations as well.
Thank you very much.