moved for leave to introduce Bill C-294, an act to provide for evaluations of statutory programs.
Mr. Speaker, I am reintroducing a bill that was part of the last session of this Parliament.
This bill is primarily designed to improve the effectiveness of government by requesting that all programs be evaluated on a periodic basis of every seven to ten years based on four fundamental criteria.
What exactly is the program designed to do? How well is the program delivering what it was designed to do? Is it doing it efficiently? Is there a better way to achieve the same results? Programs that spend over $250 million would be required to be approved by the Auditor General of Canada.
The bill is designed to improve the efficiency of government. I hope that since program evaluation has been demonstrated to save all kinds of money, we would have all-party support of this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)