I just want to add some context. I think the major impetus for all this was a change in policies and the requirement to do more evaluation of grant and contribution programs, and then the recent evaluation that sets all direct spending. Those requirements were not in place previously.
As I mentioned, this audit is about a year old now. We were doing this to see how the evaluation functioned across government. Was it prepared to be able to assume these new responsibilities under this new policy that came out? We can see, from what the secretary said, that a lot of work has been done in the last year to try to increase the capacity.
We also note in the report that most of the departments we looked at did not have formal quality management systems in place, or continuous improvement. Environment Canada did, and it can be a model for others in how they do that.