I'm taking this counsel under strong advisement. Essentially the question is, why should we believe them now? I have government responses to the first set of audits, saying they made a mistake. They made commitments that they didn't follow through on. They're going to go forward and change things.
We have the re-audit, nine out of 14 chapters not having met their own commitments to the first failure. Their answer will have to be very good because the implications of this...and this leads to my next set of questions.
Was there a department taking a look at species at risk, for example, that looked at the economic implications of their failure on a certain thing? For example, a Conservative member raised this last time during your initial briefing of the committee--he's not here now--about Cultus Lake and other salmon species that have been identified. The government was faced with this conundrum because of the mismanagement of species at risk. A species had eventually been identified. In order to protect it, they would have had to shut down the entire west coast fishery completely.
Is there any assessment of economic impacts to the failure of implementing government policy? Do departments do that kind of thing?