Thank you, Madam Chair. I will speak to the 911 evaluation, which is the most recent one that I just referenced. When we develop an evaluation framework, we do that in conjunction with the Department of Finance through their Management Board Secretariat and the evaluation folks who they have in their department. These are people who are specially trained in evaluation who could help guide the design and the development of the evaluation framework. They are also mindful that, when we do an evaluation, we want to do it properly within government.

One of the cautions that I have heard is when departments go and do evaluations on their own without working through a coordinated approach, we end up with 15, 20, 30 different types of evaluators out there evaluating things, and it just leads to more confusion. It's been a practice of the department to work through the evaluation unit within the Management Board Secretariat to complete our evaluations for a number of years now. In addition to designing the evaluation framework, the Department of Finance has already pre-reviewed evaluators who have the competency and the ability to evaluate for government purposes. There are pre-approved evaluators who the department can use to implement this work.

A good chunk of this work is done, again, to underline the consistency so that we are looking at programs the same across all of government. That's a big part of the reason why we are conducting the 911 evaluation the way that we are. We are also very early in the years of that program. We are one year in, and there are a lot of questions about how the program has been set up and how it has been resourced. I think that Members of this House and our government are interested in completing this evaluation so that we can inform answers to those questions. That's the larger reason why we are working within that system and why we are using exterior evaluators to help inform that question. Thank you, Madam Chair.