Also, you appoint different boards, you appoint different chairs, and you appoint different presidents to crown corporations and agencies. They want to have different flexibility and different approaches to things. If, for example, people are going to be replaced at museums, if they want to have a new approach to things, if you lock in their budget for five or ten years and you say, “You're going to be absolutely isolated from any kind of budget reduction, or even consideration of your mandate and approach to things”, I think that frankly neuters the obligation that we have on behalf of taxpayers to ensure that organizations are being as effective as possible in their approach to governing and spending taxpayers' money. If you just lock everything in for ten years, then what's the point of Parliament?
On May 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.