Mr. Chair, you may regret it, but you asked me to provide a little bit of guidance in terms of context. I just want to say, with a couple of points along the way, that the action plans are crucial. That's the part where the government actually responds to us and says, yes, as a response to the Auditor General, this is what we're going to do.
What used to happen in the past was that if a department wasn't called in for a public hearing, they didn't provide an action plan. All they had to do was sit back and see if they won or lost the lottery, meaning whether or not their chapter was chosen. If it was, damn, they had to go to all the trouble of doing an action plan; they knew they had to come in here.
By the way, and I'll say this a couple of times over the term, one of the things John Williams said—and it's so true—is that when this committee is doing the job it should, when a deputy minister hears they've been called to a public hearing in front of public accounts, it should ruin their week. I just say that to you.
The action plans were not being provided when they knew they didn't have to come in, so we've made that correction. Now they've been told that within six months, or when they're called in front of the committee, they have to do that action plan. Again, it's so that the work of the Auditor General has meaning and doesn't just get lost out there in all the details.