I think the report overall is quite positive on the steps taken by the secretariat. We refer to things like coordinating activities among departments, encouraging departments to improve their practices, supporting interdepartmental committees, supporting pilot projects, and some other things the secretariat did that were steps forward in how grants and contributions were managed.
We saw lots of good activities happening at the organizational level as they were implementing this.
Overall, the one thing that we noted in particular was that there were lots of good activities, both at the secretariat and at the departmental level, but part of the original objective was to reduce the administrative burden on recipients. Up to the point when we did the audit, that part hadn't been done, and that's a very important part.
I guess when you speak of best practices, it's one thing to sort of put changes in place and make changes, but there has to be a way of making sure those changes are going to have the impact they were intended to have at the beginning.