Madam Chair, as I mentioned briefly in my opening remarks, we have launched a number of activities in response to the recommendations in the report. We've talked a little bit about the reviews we have under way with regard to establishing baselines and understanding the resources we are currently devoting to our regulatory function.
In addition, as a whole of department exercise, we have undertaken two or three other initiatives that relate to the question just posed. The first of those relates to our operational planning process. As I mentioned, we have implemented a new operational planning process that will make linkages among the objectives of our regulatory program, the results we are expecting, and our performance against those results, and that will enable us to make better resource allocation and reallocation decisions in the future.
We have instituted a new budget management framework in the department, which will provide some of the documentation we lacked, as was noted in the report, in terms of resource reallocation and allocation decisions, and the consequences of those decisions, and how the department will have to adjust its own functions in the services it provides to match those resources.
We have also launched some work to look at our cost-recovery mechanisms in the department. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, it's been some time since we reviewed the fees we charge for services, and we think the time is right to have a look at those. So we have a number of cross-department initiatives under way to improve both our operational planning process and our budget management process and to provide the kind of documentation the Auditor General didn't find when she looked for it.