I'll be more gracious. I'll be less enthusiastic. I was in some respects responding to Mr. McGuinty's earlier comments about folks needing to put this in perspective. So I did want to comment that in 2001 or 2002 the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development made some observations, and again nothing happened with those, but then our government was elected, and in just 18 short months, we produced an all-party agreement on a new approach. We're grateful to Mr. Godfrey, we're grateful to Mr. Warawa, for coming up with that. And now, hardly more than 18 months later, we have this strategy in front of it.
Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to say that I'm very proud to be part of a government that does the heavy lifting on the environment and a government that does deliver results.
In particular, I noticed that among your comments, Mr. Keenan, was a statement that the management of sustainable development is now going to be linked into the core system that the government uses for planning, priority-setting, budgeting, decision-making, and managing results. This certainly seems to be a significant change over the old system, and I wondered if you could describe some of the ways that new system is an improvement over the previous one established by the former government and also how as a result it addresses some of those criticisms by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.