Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try to be less defensive in my comments with respect to the motions. The next motion, number four, is measuring output and effect. The government has been asked to provide specific and measurable performance indicators with their budget request for almost ten years, at least in the information I read.
The committee is pleased that the government agrees with this motion, and is reviewing its implementation. However, and I want to stress, that the committee is adamant that resources should no longer be provided for programs that cannot demonstrate their worth. We have to find a way to quantify how we are spending our money.
Throughout the support and the standards, the committee has requested specific minimum performance reporting standards from each government department and agency. These are measures that the committee believes are important indicators of departmental success.
It is also time for this Assembly to get tough on the need for accountability. We have all talked about it, on both sides of the Assembly, therefore, I would like to move that the committee recommend that the Assembly not approve any additional resources in the 1993 main estimates for programs that do not identify planned accomplishments, provide measurements of output and effect on a historic current and projected basis.