I believe the Standing Committee on Finance had asked the government for the information or the government had committed to providing it to the committee.
Many people and think tanks monitored the information quite closely, as did my office. We followed it closely. Being able to track, almost in real time, government spending on each of the measures—including the Canada emergency response benefit, or CERB—provided a very good sense of where the economy stood and how appropriate certain measures were. We could tell whether the demand for certain measures ended up being low, contrary to initial expectations. That was the case, for example, with the Canada emergency wage subsidy. The government could use the information to make adjustments. In addition, the opposition parties and other groups could use it to ask questions and suggest program changes. The lack of these real-time updates has made our job harder given that we are supposed to hold the government to account for its measures.
It is possible to obtain the information, though. We regularly submit requests to departments, but even though they tend to be responsive, we always have to wait for the information. It's not the same as receiving information that is provided by the government itself through an established and ongoing mechanism.