We suggest that the committee consider some of our recommendations. We often encourage departments to provide a management action plan resulting from our recommendations. In other words, the auditors saw that certain things might be an issue and identified a way forward through a recommendation. What is the department doing about that? They provide a response to say they agree or disagree, but then they also have to flesh it out to say that if they agree, what they are going to do about it.
It may be helpful to ask for that management action plan, and through that the committee could write a report to government and ask the government to state its position as to whether it's going to do certain things formally.
If you look at the report, there have been hearings on the 2009 audit, both by the status of women committee as well as the public accounts committee. Both have supported the recommendations in the Auditor General's report. Hence we saw the 2009 departmental action plan, which is a response by the government of the day saying they would do something, and that's what paved the way for the GBA+ framework and some of the progress at the central agencies. Actual implementation on the ground has been spotty.