We have three strategies that we will be implementing to monitor compliance with the policy for grants and contributions. First, we'll use the risk and compliance process, which is an annual process managed through the Treasury Board Secretariat. It involves all departments' assessing their compliance with these policies. We will be asking about two specific things: the percentage of agreements that were signed, as identified against their earlier assessments, and the percentage of agreements and the values obtained through that.
Second, we'll ask departments to track and identify, through annual departmental reporting, their best practices and lessons learned, as well as to update their tools and resources accordingly. As I've noted, we had prescribed some specific performance measures, including the value and number of agreements. This is below the program level. The statistics in terms of the number of programs that are incorporating the buy Canadian policy are at the program level. We will be asking departments to start tracking that at the very specific agreement and project level, as well as to include the value of materials and the value of Canadian content.
I would caution, though, that given the magnitude of projects in scope—we're estimating that roughly 45,000 projects funded annually would be within scope—it is quite an overwhelming paper burden to go through all those. Our systems will need to catch up, but rest assured that these are the measures we're trying to track.