Also, just below that in paragraph 8.24, it is noted that “In 2010, the Treasury Board approved the Secretariat’s request to end the government-wide reporting requirements on Initiative spending”.
When you say “Initiative spending”, you actually defined that earlier in the report, where it talks about the five pieces of the initiative. Mr. Chair, I would read them into the record. The five initiative objectives are:
- keeping terrorists out of Canada;
- deterring, preventing, detecting, and prosecuting and/or removing terrorists;
- facilitating relations between Canada and the United States;
- supporting international initiatives;
- and protecting Canada’s infrastructure.
Based on that, Mr. Ferguson, is a reporting mechanism actually still there or has it totally disappeared? Or has a new one been struck yet?