I wouldn't put it that way.
The way I would put it is that it's a common problem that we have seen in many government programs. Sometimes the way performance is measured is based on the information that is easy to capture and easy to report, rather than putting together a performance measurement regime that really looks at whether the program has achieved its intended outcome.
We don't make up the objective of the program; we look at what the departments say the objective of the program is. They said that the objective of this program was “sustainable and meaningful employment”. If the objective of this program was simply to know how many people manage to get at least part-time employment, then our report would be very different. However, because they said it was about sustainable and meaningful employment, then we wanted to see a performance measurement strategy that would let us know whether it was being successful or not. What we ended up seeing was that there were some things that were being tracked, but, again, they didn't differentiate between somebody getting full-time employment versus part-time employment, so is that really sustainable?
I don't think this is an issue that is unique to this program or this department. I think it's a problem that I've talked about many times in front of this committee, in terms of the way that the different programs measure their performance.