Yes. It wasn't the grocery list.
We agree that there was not, as is needed, a consistent way to build a pan-government view of the results of the work of the many departments and agencies. I believe the departments and agencies themselves can certainly tell many result stories and result outcomes of the work they have done, but we did not have a systematic, evidenced-based way of gathering that information. It is one of the things following the Auditor General's work that we have been working at feverishly.
In the upcoming weeks we will be implementing a performance reporting tool with the 28 departments and agencies that represent around 99% of the grants and contributions spending in the Government of Canada. They will be going through an information-gathering stage over the next few months and will bring this back into the centre in the fall, as I mentioned in my opening comments, which will do a number of things for us.
The first thing it will do is give us a benchmark in 2013. We are also asking departments in their work to contrast where they are today and where they were in 2006, 2007, and 2008, so we can get a sense of that movement. That may be difficult in some cases. It may be relatively straightforward in others. But with the work done, and in the extensive way it will be done, it gives us that baseline that on a going-forward basis we can manage.