As I indicated in my opening comments, or perhaps when I was here last week, this type of disclosure allows taxpayers or applicants to compare the performance of an organization with the compensation that is provided to the people running that organization.
I live in Edmonton, as the members probably know, and we have an office of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Many of my constituents don't understand what the individuals in that office do, or why they're even there, for that matter. Not to be too harsh, but the perception of DFO on the prairies is often that they're there just to create rules and then have a reason to go out and administer them. I'm not saying that's true, but that's a perception that is often provided to my office with respect to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in a city where there are neither oceans nor fish.
This would allow individuals to determine exactly how their tax dollars are being spent, what those individuals who are being paid by their tax dollars earn, and what those people purportedly do to earn those tax dollars. It's information that allows taxpayers to assess the value they're receiving for their tax dollars.