In fact there's detailed reporting, inasmuch as the Department of Finance releases a monthly fiscal monitor within 50 days after the end of each monthly period. That's publicly available on the Department of Finance's website. You can see, by major spending category, in great detail what the spending pattern is by month.
Past Auditors General have exhorted the government to take steps to try to change the incentives for departmental managers. An important innovation took place a number of years ago, in 1995. We then put in place a 5% operating budget carry-forward, such that in order to lighten although not necessarily totally remove the incentive a deputy minister is allowed basically the fiscal framework, and Treasury Board Secretariat are bound to allow for carrying forward up to 5% of the full year's operating budget if it is not required to fulfill the planned spending. They get that plus what they normally would have gotten. That gives a better incentive to the manager.
A third point is that the committee may be interested in talking to the Minister of Public Works. There is a procurement modernization strategy underway that's both dealing with the tools of procurement but also planning for procurement more generally as a further step.