Public Accounts committee  From the perspective of Western Economic Diversification, it's been very positive over the time period. As Mr. Scrimger referenced earlier, it's enabled us to concentrate on applying an intelligent risk management approach to fairly assess what is high, medium, and low risk, act accordingly, and tailor our interventions with those recipients accordingly.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think a number of the initiatives we have taken to really respect the fact that all not recipients are created equally.... For instance, some of the latest initiatives under Budget 2012 and the economic action plan involve going from large municipalities to very small, not-for-profit organizations that may be relying on more volunteers.

Public Accounts committee  We actually do a risk assessment a minimum of twice on the life of an actual project. When the project and recipient proposal first comes in, the initial risk assessment is done. It's driven by a number of factors that are built into our systems to ensure consistency of risk assessment, project to project, and across all recipients.