I would just comment, Mr. Chair, that we note satisfactory progress in addressing the recommendation that was made in 2002, except for the issue of the costs that weren't recorded in the right year. But that recommendation was essentially limited to financial accounting and reporting, because that was the problem at the time. We have noted, as I said, satisfactory progress in dealing with that. We also note in this report that there were many contract issues in the early years of the program and that the current management team has done a lot of work to correct the issues there.
So we have seen progress. There are still, though, remaining issues, and I would say one of the major issues in this whole discussion about the future of the registry is that the firearms centre does not give Parliament performance information. There are no outcome measures. There are no indicators of how effective the program is or what the program is accomplishing. Without those, quite frankly, I think it's hard to make an evaluation of the program.
The centre agreed with us that these needed to be in place and that they were going to begin working on them. That is a major gap at this point in time—as well as, obviously, such operational issues as the quality of the data, and the verifiers' network, and all that. The whole performance measurement is a big issue.