Sure, and thank you for the question.
What was being referred to there is, if you think about the expenditure management system in government, that involves everything from the budgets, cabinet decision-making, right through to Treasury Board's approval of spending, and then actual spending. The expenditure management system does go through a review from time to time. The last one was about six years ago, and if I can give you a bit of history, out of that came the idea of strategic reviews.
Some of the longer serving members here would remember strategic reviews where each government department had to look at its programs every four years to look at effectiveness, so that was done. It talked about strengthening the evaluation function of the government, which has been done. There are evaluation functions in all departments. Those were kind of the major outcomes of the last time.
This time around our focus is going to be on improved costing. We effectively have two levels of costing. There's costing that goes into the memoranda to cabinet and then costing again on a more detailed level when it comes to Treasury Board submissions. These are improvements in the costing through greater guidance and material to CFOs who actually have to attest to their costs. That's one kind of improvement I would speak to.
The other is the notion of ongoing spending reviews of one sort or another, and that will vary by year. We'll look at a particular initiative or a particular area of spending to see if there are ways they can be improved and spending reduced. Those are the two highlights off the top of my head. I hope that answers the question.