Thank you. I did have a chance to read your brief. I apologize for coming in late.
I have heard you speak before on this issue, and I'd like to turn my attention to perhaps juxtapose this act with the work you did on the Gomery commission.
I'd like to get your take on recommendation 2 of the commission report--and just for those who might not have committed it to memory, it says, “The Government should adopt legislation to entrench into law a Public Service Charter.” There are references in the recommendations about what that is and the intent of that.
In fact, what this piece of legislation was to address was not specifically Gomery, but to take a look at what parts of Gomery they thought were applicable and certainly to fold them in.
Could you speak to that recommendation? We haven't talked a lot about it, and certainly, in my opinion, and from what I've seen in this town, it has been talked about a lot, the idea of inducing ethics into the way government operates. I think this was an attempt to do that.
Could you just speak to what the public service charter was to do and how we might see it come into place?