Thank you, Mr. Warawa.
It's certainly nice to have you here, Mr. Hamilton, and I certainly congratulate you on your recent designation as associate deputy minister at the Department of Environment. I look forward to your long stay there, which I know will give you opportunities to get back before this committee.
My question for you is bit of a philosophical question about you as a person and as a thinker and a professional. You certainly have a large repertoire under your belt, so I'm going to get right to it.
What is your philosophical approach to your role in relation to the accountability you have through the department to the Auditor General and the environment commissioner? And how do you rationalize that with the seeming need today to get things moving a little bit more quickly to streamline processes, to reduce red tape, and to eliminate some of the barriers that sometimes come up? I like to refer to them as rules just for the sake of rules. How do you balance that and make sure at the same time that we can find those efficiencies while still standing the test of public scrutiny?