Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Chairman, I haven't really looked at other countries in any detail on this. We're hoping that this will be done by the government as it conducts the review that they have committed to undertaking.
In terms of overarching goals, this year the Department of the Environment asked departments that were going to prepare these sustainable development strategies to tell Environment Canada what they were doing and what programs they had, I think under about six different topics. So that information will have been assembled as part of the process of developing this fourth round of strategies.
That's a far cry from having goals set at the centre. It may be a start toward developing goals for the government as a whole, but I would suggest to you it's a modest start.