I would have to turn to the documents the government provides to parliamentarians as part of the accountability, and in particular the estimates process. In this process, each department and agency presents its report on plans and priorities for the coming year, and then at the end of that year presents a performance report. We've done a lot of work on assessing various performance reports and plans and priorities across government, and we've noted that while government has made progress, let's say in the last 10 years, there's still a lot of work to be done.
There are a couple of major challenges. The first is that in the world in which we work and operate, it is very rare that you see a departmental performance report that will really explain all of the challenges, difficulties, and problems they are facing. I think we can all understand why that may be.
Second, quite frankly, there isn't a lot of attention given by parliamentarians to those documents and the whole estimates process, and that's a fundamental function in our system. If departments and parliamentarians had more open, honest discussion about management problems they're facing and the realities of how they're working, I think parliamentarians would better understand those things and might be able to make better judgments about policy decisions.
The tools are there; they need to be improved and they need to be used.