That law is sufficiently specific that we do not need to do any evaluation ourselves. We can ask the departments whether they have done it and what the results were. In cases where they have an obligation, under the legislation, to produce a result, or to do the analyses, we ask them whether they have obtained specific results, performance indicators, and whether they have done evaluations to determine whether their programs are meeting those objectives. I have to say that when we ask those questions, in some of the departments where we do audits, we are told that the evaluations that are required have not been done.
Our Act states very specifically that we do not do evaluations. Doing evaluations to determine whether changes or improvements have to be made to programs and policies is considered to be the responsibility of managers. However, we can certainly tell a department, for example the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, that it has this obligation, under the legislation that governs it, to determine how it is meeting that obligation and whether it is achieving the objectives set.