Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's clear that the climate change file is a horizontal issue. Treasury Board Secretariat fully agrees with the report issued by Madame Gélinas, and we've worked on that report with Madame Gélinas through that process over the last year.
I would also say that climate change is not the only such file that we at the secretariat are dealing with as the central agency with respect to horizontal files.
The Auditor General released a report last year, and one of her chapters was generally on horizontal files. The secretariat is using that information as well as the information generated by Madame Gélinas's report to frame a more robust approach to horizontal file management across the government. For example, with respect to the issues raised by Madame Gélinas, it's clear that new and different approaches to horizontal management and governance are going to be required on this and maybe some other horizontal files, but those governance approaches must respect accountabilities of the departments and the senior officials and ministers in departments.
We're working through that this year right now with Environment Canada and others on the climate change file, as was mentioned, to respect the roles and responsibilities of departments and to increase accountability. It is also to focus on results and to see, when we approve programs such as the climate change programs that are going to be coming before the board, that there is a focus on the ongoing cycle and results within that cycle, as well as on reporting.
We did do a review last year at the secretariat, as Madame Gélinas has mentioned. It was the budget 2005 review of existing climate change programs. The secretariat did the first phase of that review, which was to look at the performance of over 106 climate change programs. Other phases to the review, as Madame Gélinas noted, were led by other central agencies, but in terms of the performance review--