The reports provided by departments on their performance are good, but they are not good enough. Furthermore, they are not produced fast enough to fit in with the role of the secretary of Treasury Board I am attempting to describe. This is a management role. The secretary would have to be informed about the way the department or the entity business have evolved every three months, and not six months after the end of the year. The report on performance, which is in fact produced some time after the end of the year, is not sufficiently detailed nor quite on time.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.