I couldn't agree with the member more. We need to provide that transparency to Parliament.
We need to, first of all, ensure that there is progress and that it is reported in a meaningful and understandable way. The challenge is considerable in this area. There are problems of measurement, as the member pointed out. There's a difference in baseline data that we have to deal with across 28 departments and agencies. There are differences in location. How do you compare, for example, energy use in Quebec, where it's likely to come predominantly from hydro, versus energy use in Ontario, where it comes from nuclear or coal-based facilities?
It's quite difficult to achieve. We realize we should try to do better; in the meantime, without perhaps having a totally uniform base, we're trying to find ways of giving parliamentarians meaningful information on progress that's being made.
In our own case, for example, in PWGSC, it can be measured in part by our progress on super-energy-efficient buildings that we're developing.