Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to quickly talk about chapter 1, where Canada's Economic Action Plan is mentioned. Forty-seven billion dollars was spent on the action plan and the point of it all, we were told, was job creation. But, in your report, you say that “the program was designed in a way that did not allow for performance measurement and reporting against this key objective”. A lot of time has been spent trumpeting the results of this program that was ultimately designed to create jobs.
Could you explain what you meant by “in a way that did not allow for performance measurement”?