Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In terms of how those decisions are made, and why they are made without a complete business case, we agree that business cases need to be improved.
Let me clarify that when decisions are made, they are based on a very complete and fulsome Treasury Board submission. Although we agree that the business case portion of this should be improved, and we specifically want it to improve its focus on things such as options, analysis, and outcome management, we also want to state that very clear plans are made, in terms of how money is spent and on what things. There has to be a detailed project plan that also deals with risks and things like that. Those are all the pieces that have to be there as part of a Treasury Board submission before we will let it go forward.
So we agree with the Auditor General that the full business case, looking at business outcomes and how to achieve them, needs to be in place. That's one of the areas of focus that we have in our action plan.