Mr. Chair, we counted about 60 such recurring report requirements. There are ad hoc requests as well, so we're not counting ATIP requests or parliamentary requests in terms of information needed from departments and agencies. Working with the Treasury Board Secretariat, because they didn't actually have a complete inventory, we sat down with analysts to try to figure out what was the quantum there. On a recurring basis, there are about 60 of them.
At the outset, we would not have had a complete list to choose them from, nor were we trying to be representative in the selection. We wanted a bit of a combination of different natures. One for transparency, which seems like a good one, is the proactive disclosure of contracts. Larger contracts often should be subjected to public scrutiny, so information like that is put out there and people can see it for transparency purposes. Weighing that with some that would support accountability requirements and some that might be also for internal purposes as well, we wanted to have both the Treasury Board and the Public Service Commission, so that's why the staffing accountability report was chosen.
There wasn't a particular magic formula that we used, but we wanted a combination of different types of audit reports to choose from.