I believe the advantage of hindsight in this matter is tremendous. If in 2006 we had understood the scope of the effort required to achieve the change we were looking for, we would have been somewhat surprised.
I can only come back to the fact that the requirement to be able to demonstrate impact and success was not forgotten. The Auditor General has brought us up on the fact that we did not have a consistent way of presenting a pan-government picture. I suspect the departments and agencies can certainly provide a much richer viewpoint of what's happened inside their own organizations. But it is important that we can build that pan-government picture.
That is the same story that's coming to us—any number of enterprises. There's a greater interest as the Government of Canada in being able to talk about the entity and the impact of things on the entity. Moving forward, I cannot see the same oversight, if you wish, being made.
I can't speak to what happened seven years ago, but I would repeat there was a clear desire and interest on the part of the government to understand the impact. We may not have had the right tool in place to do so.