Thank you, Chair.
I would like to go back to Mr. Ferguson and then perhaps Mr. Scrimger, and take us back to page 4 in the English version. In chapter 2, at exhibit 2.1, there's the 2006 report from the blue ribbon panel and then there's the “Government Action Plan—2008”. It's a very lovely block flowchart, if you will, with Treasury Board at the top, TBS leadership and ongoing support at the bottom, and in the middle, it says “implement changes” across organizations. The arrows flow to that, and then they flow out to the recipients. Then, in the box, it says: “Reduced administrative burden”.
Can you help me here? Shouldn't there be another arrow on this thing? It seems to me that I heard Mr. Scrimger say earlier to me something about getting something back from recipients that told the departments whether all of this did indeed help them. Did they do better? Did they save money? Did they feel the burden was reduced? Somehow we sent it out to them but we never bothered to have an arrow coming back in the other way that just simply said, “Tell us how you're making out.”
Am I oversimplifying that or am I headed down a wrong path with this? I'm certainly not an auditor, by any stretch of the imagination, but is it not quite simple to have an arrow coming back the other way that says “let us know” or “report”, whatever term you want?