With regard to the role of the Treasury Board Secretariat in this area, I would point to a couple of key policies. They're the policies around results. When there's a new program launched, there will be results defined or targets defined that actually come as part of the package to receive funding, which Parliament then votes on. Those results and measures are used to evaluate effectiveness. They're very important in terms of assessing ongoing effectiveness, even though some of these things take years to demonstrate fruition.
The other tool that we help departments with is the evaluation tool. When you have a new program, every five years or so there's an evaluation done on the results to make sure the program is getting the results intended. You will see all of that rolled up in departmental results reports that are tabled in Parliament every year around this time.
