Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madame Gélinas, I thank you for your presentation.
There are a lot of interesting questions for you today. You made a comment earlier in your responses that to get something done you should have measurements, measurements where you have achievable benchmarks set so you can do your checks and balances throughout the process or throughout the implementation of any program.
It appears to me that in your report--although I have to be honest, I haven't read it cover to cover, but I have had briefings on it--you're quite clear in your assessment that the environmental and sustainable development approaches by the previous government had a profound lack of benchmarks and a way of checking the progress, a way of ongoing cost-benefit analysis of the money being spent versus the results that were being achieved. That's what I get from your report, although you may not use such strong terms as that. Am I understanding the gist of your report and some of your comments correctly?