Thank you for that question. That's actually very good.
I will not speak for the Auditor General. What the Auditor General looked at was something that we've called the FIAP—the feminist international assistance policy—KPIs or key performance indicators. This was a set of 26 indicators that were created at the program or corporate level, i.e., they were not associated with a specific project, instead, they were a set of indicators designed to help us with the implementation of the policy.
As noted about the $3.5 billion in annual spending, when the new policy was put in place, the government had already been working under a completely different policy in terms of where Canada's development assistance was being focused. The 26 indicators, as the Auditor General rightly points out, were fundamentally about performance or outputs—what it is that the project money is doing as opposed to outcomes. That's exactly right at this corporate level of reporting.
The purpose of those indicators was to demonstrate to the government and to Canadians that the department was following the policy. It was readjusting the allocations that we were making—