Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate, as I would have expected, the apples-to-apples comparison.
I still have a question in my head about this issue of the recommendations in the performance audits, where you looked at 10 and five were done. Is there any mechanism for your department to follow up with the five that aren't done?
I recognize that you don't have a mandate to insist things be done even though they've agreed as a department. I recognize you don't have that authority, but is there any way to ensure that things get done? One of the complaints we see, quite often, when reports come here, for those of us who have been here long enough, is that a report comes back from a similar department about a similar case with the same recommendation that we saw four years prior. Of course they agreed four years prior and now they're agreeing again.
Is there anything inside your organization or statute that allows you to do that, or report to Parliament, or to us in a way that says, “Okay, they've said they should do something.”
Now we get a report mechanism as well. I'm not denying that, but is there anything that you see that could be helpful in that regard?