It also required 78 departments and agencies to table these reports on a pilot basis. This decision grew out of work by Treasury Board Secretariat and 16 pilot departments to fulfil the government's commitments to improve the expenditure management information provided to Parliament and to modernize the preparation of this information. This Departmental Performance Report responds to the government's commitments and reflects the goals set by Parliament to improve accountability for results. Accounting and managing for results will involve sustained work across government.
Government programs operate in continually changing environments.
With the increase in partnering, third party delivery of services and other alliances, challenges of attribution in reporting results will have to be addressed. The performance reports and their preparation must be monitored to make sure that they remain credible and useful. This report represents one more step in this continuing process. The government intends to refine and develop both managing for results and the reporting of the results. The refinement will come from the experience acquired over the next few years and as users make their information needs more precisely known.