A federal House of Commons government operations committee heard that federal managers set easy performance targets that they often fail to meet.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux testified before the committee on March 20, stating that government department targets “tend to be too easy,” in response to a question from B.C. Liberal MP Parm Bains.
“I speak of my own experience having been in the public service for more than two decades. Generally speaking, targets are set so that they seem to be reasonably ambitious, but they are always deemed to be attainable, barring unforeseen events,” Giroux told the committee.
Annual targets are set by executives in Departmental Results reports, which are then tabled in Parliament, according to Blacklock’s Reporter….