Minister's Message - 2016–17 Report on Plans and Priorities - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Minister's Message

I am pleased to present the 2016-17 Report on Plans and Priorities of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. We are committed to offering Canadians a government that will do things differently — both in terms of what we do and how we do it.

As President of the Treasury Board, I have a mandate to lead the management agenda and oversee the implementation and delivery of Cabinet approved initiatives. The Secretariat will support me in delivering key elements of my mandate:

• enhancing the openness and transparency of Government;
• taking steps to ensure better services for Canadians;
• improving oversight and reporting to Parliament;
• aligning resources with priorities to maximize results for Canadians;
• developing a high-performing workforce that meets the needs of the future; and
• creating a more open, agile and collaborative Secretariat.

The 2016-2017 Report on Plans and Priorities of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat provides information on how the department will support the Government on achieving our agenda in the coming year, and I am fully confident that the Secretariat is prepared to successfully support me and work with our partners inside and outside government to deliver for Canadians. However, given our commitment to more effective reporting, this year’s report will be the final submission using the existing reporting framework.

The Prime Minister and I are working to develop new, simplified and more effective reporting processes that will better allow Parliament and Canadians to monitor our Government’s progress on delivering real change for Canadians. In the future, the Secretariat’s reports to Parliament will focus more transparently on how we are using our resources to fulfill our commitments and achieve results for Canadians.

These new reporting mechanisms will allow Canadians to more easily follow the Secretariat’s progress towards delivering on our priorities, which were outlined in the Prime Minister’s mandate letter to me.