Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, it wasn't that kind of a sample. We asked the departments to provide us with a list of all the evaluations they undertook in order to examine their effectiveness. We chose some of the evaluation reports on their lists, on effectiveness, according to a procedure that

Public Accounts committee  There were problems in 17 out of the 23 evaluations. The departments pointed out in their report that there were shortcomings in performance data. The other departments did not mention that. Our review showed that 17 evaluations out of the 23 had in fact indicated, in the perform

Public Accounts committee  I do not have that information. Perhaps I could provide you with that information later.

Public Accounts committee  The purpose was to determine to what extent the 23 reports were complete, based on certain criteria. The other six did not mention any problems or issues with respect to data collection or methods. In those reports, it appeared to us that the procedure was more satisfactory with

Public Accounts committee  Well, we do make some comments about the Treasury Board Secretariat. Mr. Chairman, we do make some comments about the process, of course, and we say that one of our concerns is that we felt that in some of these cases, when we discussed them with Treasury Board Secretariat, there

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Basically, we looked at supplementary estimates over a five-year period, from 2001-02 through 2005-06. Now, 2005-06 was not in fact put into effect. It wasn't voted on, because the election was called just after those estimates were tabled in the House.