Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our guests for being here. Just as the deputy minister is new, so am I to this committee, so I did a little work from the previous year just to get up to speed on a few things.
Part of the estimates process, as you know, is the plans and priorities documents that are produced every year and normally presented shortly after the mains are out. I was reading them and there was one thing of interest to me that I thought maybe you could clarify for me.
One of the priorities as part of the estimates process is strengthening the outcomes based on management as a priority, which seems sort of motherhood and apple pies—obviously what we should be doing. But it says the CIC's new program alignment architecture, the PAA, and the performance measures framework, the PMF, was to be introduced as of April.
I'd like to know how it's going. What are your expectations of the outcomes from this? Does this mean that if a program is not working and isn't meeting the goals that we set for it, you're going to bring it forward and that maybe we should either restructure it or get rid of it? Could you explain what that means?