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1999 September and November Report of the Auditor General of Canada
September and November 1999 Report—Matters of Special Importance
Exhibit 3—Milestones in Performance Reporting at the Federal Level
February 1995. The government announced a new Expenditure Management System, stressing commitment to "performance information and management."November 1995. In his annual report, entitled Strengthening Government Review , the Treasury Board President reaffirmed the government's commitment to results-oriented management and set out its strategy to bring it about.
April 1997. The House of Commons approved a motion to split the annual Estimates Part III into two documents, a Report on Plans and Priorities , tabled in the spring, and a Performance Report , tabled in the fall. The intention is for the reports on plans and priorities to establish performance expectations and for the performance reports to disclose how well previous expectations were achieved. The first complete set of Performance Reports was tabled in November 1997 and the first full set of Reports on Plans and Priorities in March 1998.