A mechanism is built into the agreements that we reach with each province and territory. The bilateral agreement asks the province or territory to provide us with an action plan showing how they intend to invest the money we are giving them. Basically, the province or territory gives us a list that matches the priorities that we and the province or territory have agreed on together. As representatives of the federal government, we are also comfortable with that.
Accountability for the action plan is done every two years. Every two years, the provinces and territories provide a report showing us what they have done with each of the initiatives in their action plan. Clearly, that allows us to monitor the investments that we have made in terms of the objectives that we had established.
We do not follow the money; that would be difficult to do. We turn the money over to departments of education; they distribute it to school boards who in turn distribute it to schools. So we do not follow the flow of money downstream, for a very simple reason: this is an area of provincial and territorial jurisdiction and we are not actually authorized to require details beyond what we are doing at the moment.