There are a lot of documents that Parliament receives, over a thousand documents a year. I know there's frustration with so many documents and that one might feel overloaded with too much information.
I know that if I had a thousand students and had to examine a thousand papers each term, I would not be a very good professor. But professors look at things differently from parliamentarians.
I don't think there are too many documents. I think the departmental report on plans and priorities is an important document, a forward-looking document of what the department plans to do over the course of the fiscal year and the upcoming years, and that's done in the spring. The departmental performance report done in the fall, I think, is a good document that then examines what's been accomplished against the objectives that have been set.
I think what is important is to be able to align those back some way into the vote structure, which is what Parliament votes on, as those other two documents are set out by activity structures.