Part of the mandate of this committee is to make sure that the department, the bureaucrats, or whoever else there is delivering on the policy objectives are doing that. Our Auditor General stated it today. These are long range. I am thankful to the deputy minister who sent us a detailed action plan on the Auditor General's report, but it seems to me that some of these are so far down the road. As a committee what we're mandated to do is make sure that there is follow-through. That's why you're here today. If we were to ask you back here in six months.... I don't know if there would be any reason to ask you back in six months because the first report strategy is going to be the winter of 2016 into 2017, and then, depending on that, there's another one. It's going up to 2019. You're confident that it's going forward now, but the dates are so far in advance.
What are the benchmarks along the way that we can follow up on and say, “Okay, yes, they appeared before committee. They were there with the Auditor General. They gave us an action plan, but they basically said that they can't really do anything until they see that plan in spring of 2017”? There must be some way, though, that we can determine whether you're reaching certain short-term goals before then.