Government Operations committee  Do you want to finish that?

Government Operations committee  I appreciate the question, but I'm not best placed to respond to that.

Government Operations committee  It's a whole-of-government approach in terms of—

Government Operations committee  It's the Department of Finance that provides the information that we load on the website.

Government Operations committee  We provide the best information we have to Canadians, which is supplied from departments and agencies.

Government Operations committee  I'll start by responding to the first part of your questions, about the impact Canada initiative and how that relates to the renewal and transformation of the public service with respect to bringing in new tools, approaches, and skill sets. Within my organization, we're undertaki

Government Operations committee  I would respectfully defer that question, obviously, to the Minister of Finance.

Government Operations committee  Yes, as you point out, the mandate letter tracker is an instrument that we use to publicly communicate progress on the government's over 350 mandate letter commitments and individual commitments. Their progress would best be addressed to the departments for which they are respons

Government Operations committee  We are not in a position to comment on the actual—

Government Operations committee  The impact Canada initiative was launched in budget 2017 as a whole-of-government approach to accelerate what we call outcomes-based funding approaches. These are approaches that governments around the world have used with respect to public service spending. They orient the spend

Government Operations committee  Sure, absolutely. I think what you're referring to is the smart cities challenge that was launched last fall under the auspices of the impact Canada initiative. The smart cities challenge is basically meant to be a community-based approach to help bring new and novel thinking to