The process in CIC is similar to that in other departments. We have an evaluation committee, chaired by my deputy minister, which meets almost monthly, in fact, because of the workload we have. We come each year with a plan and decide what evaluations will take place. We have various stages of providing information within the department before we finalize the report. For example, we will brief the program managers internally, we will check with them that there are no errors of fact in what we found, then we will finalize the report, and it gets tabled at the evaluation committee with the deputy minister for approval.
Along with the report, there is a list of findings. The responsible program managers—and often this may cut across a number of areas in the department, because it's not just the people designing the policy but also those who are implementing it, and it may involve our regional offices as well—provide a response, and at the same time there is an action plan in terms of how they are going to address the findings.
We also have in place a process to track progress against that action plan on a periodic basis to make sure that the changes proposed and agreed on at the evaluation committee are in fact being implemented.