In legislation, it could be as it is with the Auditor General. In its legislation, the mandated timelines for responses are a way of making sure departments respond in a timely manner. That's one way it could be imparted in legislation. However, I would come back to the other part of it: It doesn't mean that they have to accept those particular recommendations.
We are pretty good at the work we do and the recommendations we put forward. The vast majority are accepted. The implementation is just much slower than I think we would all like to see.
The other part of it is that the way we impose transparency on the organization is through producing progress reports. Every year, those are updated by the departments. We analyze the evidence and show whether the recommendations that have been accepted have been fully implemented, partially implemented or not implemented. That is all public. That's actually a best practice that I would like to see in the rest of the public service.