We want the secretary of the Treasury Board to have available information systems which would allow him to know whether the departments are properly implementing the policies that it approved. It must have systems which indicate whether the departments are respecting their objectives and properly managing the resources granted to them. The systems must provide the central organization which is the Treasury Board Secretariat with sufficient information to allow it to determine whether the departments and the entities are doing their work properly.
At the present time, I do not think that Treasury Board is able to answer this question. Very often, it relies on other sources. For example, the Auditor General raises problems that the Treasury Board was not aware of.