The groups that are largely responsible for undertaking the reporting activities within departments fall generally within back-office operations, as we call them. The government cost-containment initiatives tried to ensure that service to Canadians was not affected and that a majority of the cuts were made to government operations. That was the source of that concern, that the capacity to do this reporting was put under more stress as a result.
On May 13th, 2015. See this statement in context.