Public Accounts committee  Our audit goes down to September 2009. What we saw when we audited was that, yes, departments were starting to use those flexibilities to adapt to their own environment.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The way the legislation is organized is to give flexibilities for a department to conduct HR management. Within those flexibilities--for example, asset qualifications--depending on the job they're going to staff, a department might decide on one set of asset qualifications as opposed to another set for a different type of job in another department.