I guess it's how the process is defined under the legislation. It's really up to Parliament to decide if Parliament would rather have that done in a different way.
The idea of the special examinations is that, in those cases, we are going in, we're looking at the systems and practices of that crown corporation, and we're reporting to the board of that crown corporation whether there are any significant deficiencies in their systems and practices. The special examinations around crown corporations were designed as reporting to the board about their systems and practices, but putting a requirement on the board for them to make the report public.
The other thing that I should mention to you is that on May 16 we will be including three special examinations. For one of them, again the time period is such that the crown corporation will probably make it public just shortly before May 16, so there may be another one that you will hear about before the actual tabling on May 16.
We used to just provide a summary of the special examinations. Recently, we've gone to providing you with the full special examination to make sure that you're aware of all of the issues. I think the fact that recently we've started giving you that special examination as the complete report, and it looks like all of our other performance audits, is probably a little bit what's causing some of the confusion because this practice has been going on ever since special examinations were put into the Financial Administration Act, the practice of us preparing them, reporting them to the board of the crown corporation, and the board making them public.
What we did in the past was, we would just do a small chapter that said, by the way, over the past year we had issued special examinations on the following crown corporations, and give you just the summary of it, whereas over the last probably year or year and a half, we've started providing you with the full special examination, so they look like full chapters.
In terms of your question about should it change or not, I mean again, right now, it's a report that's done for the board and presented to the board. The idea of the board having to make it public within a certain period of time is so that it doesn't take a year to make it public. I don't have any particular complaints about that. I think it's more whether, as parliamentarians, you're satisfied with that process.