Public Accounts committee  Generally, it was the time to implementation. These are well-costed and go through the process of Treasury Board, etc. You can ask colleagues—

Public Accounts committee  It's pretty close. The delay in the implementation of things that are outside the scope of a particular department, or even the initiative across the board because of questions like... My colleague was talking about pre-clearance. There's been a delay there in part because of com

Public Accounts committee  I wouldn't want to hazard a guess on their behalf.

Public Accounts committee  I'll speak for myself. We make management decisions all the time. Any additional information that you can bring to the conversation that gives you a better-informed decision, you're making a better—

Public Accounts committee  It depends on how big the project is. That's a very good question. We were debating just this morning in terms of what the cut-off point is between dozens—my words, nobody else's—of individual indicators that take time and money to develop versus one or two that could cut acros

Public Accounts committee  I think your point about agreements with the EU is on interactive passenger PNR, which is a different initiative. Our colleagues can lay out the status of those negotiations.

Public Accounts committee  I'll start on the general response. I believe, and I just confirmed this with Jill, that the U.S. doesn't have a similar horizontal reporting tool or device. You'd have to evaluate it silo by silo, and I don't think anyone has, at least that I'm aware of, but I'll let my collea

Public Accounts committee  I can helpfully point you in the direction of the Treasury Board Secretariat, which I think is coming on Tuesday.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, kerplunk. Seriously, this is one of the challenges in managing these kinds of approaches. You asked if there were any other examples, but we can't actually think of one that's as big as this. This really was the first time trying to do something that crossed so many departm

Public Accounts committee  Again, I don't want to put words in the Auditor General's mouth. Auditor General, correct me if I get this wrong. There was in fact costing on an initiative-by-initiative basis, project by project, within each department. I don't think there's a dispute about that. I think the

Public Accounts committee  Okay.

Public Accounts committee  Sure. I'd be happy to. I'm not going to try to put words in the Auditor General's mouth, but I think it is worth underlining a couple of things. One, we have work to do on performance indicators. The report has also indicated that the vast majority of initiatives that are part o

Public Accounts committee  We have no hesitation in committing to sharing the results with the committee.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. I think you've already introduced my colleagues, Jill Wherrett, John Ossowski, Martin Bolduc, and Gilles Michaud. As members know, Public Safety Canada is one of many working to implement the beyond the border action plan. At t

Public Safety committee  I would very quickly go back to the example that the director of the service gave, which is an ongoing operation that, depending on timing, is at a particularly critical point, and the actual shift of the resources required to respond effectively to what the committee is asking i