I think it's twofold. When we think about parliamentarians and specifically the work done by this committee in producing its report on Parliament's scrutiny of the estimates, there were many questions and concerns raised about the volume of paper that an interested member of Parliament would have to go through to understand what was in the main estimates.
A very logical first question, if you've seen the main estimates, might be, what did the department have last year? How much of that money did they spend? How much have they spent so far this year, if we're in the middle of the year? Wouldn't it be nice if we could see that all in one area?
The way the government responded to that concern was twofold. One, in the main estimates now there is piece of paper that provides that summary, but for those members who are more technologically inclined, they can go to the database, find out more about the mandate of the department, get information in detail about how they spent their money—is it on goods and services, salary, contracts, that sort of thing?—and also get information on the programs of the department. So it was twofold.
We did want to make it a useful tool for Canadians. For that reason, it was built using tools and techniques that would be familiar to most Canadians who are familiar with the Internet. It does work a little bit like Google.