Right now the policy-makers, the legislators, are running off in 12 different directions. This is a template, just as we've had a template in the past--the one Mr. Toner referred to--a deficit-cutting template. This is a template for sustainable development that will impose on decision-makers a series of boxes they have to check and perform. They can still, of course, ignore the boxes, but there will be consequences. The bill talks about performance-based contracts. It talks about targets, and it talks about monitoring and very public reporting in connection with the targets, performance, and monitoring.
On April 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.