Mr. Chairman, basically what we did this year was institute a new process for report cards that was more comprehensive, so there was very little notice to departments in order for them to understand what we were going to be seeking in terms of information. We do report that in the special report.
One of the particular areas where we wanted to have specific information was on the specific extensions and also on the length of time for consultations. This is information that's not collected in a very disaggregated data by the various departments because, as it stands now, it's not a requirement for their reporting to Treasury Board Secretariat. Because of that, it did require a bit of work from the departments in answering our questions. We were particularly looking at extensions in consultations timelines because we feel it's becoming a real concern.
We've decided that what we're going to do with the report cards going forward is actually a three-year plan so that departments and institutions that will be the subject of report cards will get advance notice that we will basically be looking into more details in some of those practices.