Keeping in that vein, and as we move forward to getting back to balanced budgets, which I know is critically important as well, you've been a minister as long as I've been here, and I came here in 2006. I know that as a minister it doesn't matter what ministry you're in, you're constantly presented with funding proposals, as I am as a member of Parliament, and with ideas and so on for various initiatives that people have.
When it comes to your department as a whole, do you review the programs and look at efficiencies and the effectiveness of the program? While I assume the answer to that question is yes, I would like to know more about how that happens.
Is it an ongoing process? Is it a batch...? Is it a pulse process that you go through? Is it something like simply responding to the Auditor General? How do those efficiencies get found? How does that effectiveness get found? Then, of course, how do the results that we just talked about in the previous question get monitored and analyzed? How does that help you make the decisions as to what programs are important?