I have only a minute left, but that's what I wanted to hear. I thank you for that, because I'm assuming that may be a theme we will be seeing here at the public accounts committee with the Treasury Board with regard to other departments and how they are following this horizontal model.
My last point, Madam Chair, is about Public Safety. I raised this on Monday, and I'll do it again.
On Monday, Mr. Ferguson, the Auditor General, said, at paragraph 12, that they had examined how progress of the action plan was reported and whether this reporting was complete and accurate, stating, “Overall, we found that in the 2014-15 Report on the Beyond the Border Action Plan Horizontal Initiative...Public Safety Canada provided an incomplete and inaccurate picture of progress and costs.”
He goes on to say:
As an example, for the initiative on deploying border wait-time technology, the report stated that seven crossings had been completed. The report did not mention that six crossings had been completed years before the Action Plan was released. For the Shiprider initiative, the report did not mention that the second main commitment to expand pilot projects on land had not been started, or that there were no plans to pursue them. For the initiative on enhancing benefits to the trusted trader programs, the report stated that there were 83 new members in the 2014-15 fiscal year, but it did not mention that the long-term goal was to attract 1,700 new members.
In light of the discrepancies between what was in the report and what should have been in the report, can you explain to us why these inaccuracies were there?