I agree with the chairman and my colleague. Maybe it's because of my previous experience as a municipal councillor, but my expectation was that staff, which I consider you to be, would give us recommendations on areas that we know nothing about--unless you're involved with it, you don't know a lot about it--but obviously that's not the case.
My question is for future reference. Since this is a required review, not something that somebody here on the committee is interested in doing.... I wouldn't say it's that political, since you had consensus to make it happen. Would we have been better off to have the minister here first--since it sounds like you work for the minister--and pose the questions we need answers to from the ministry, or should we have had permission from the minister to allow you to provide us with recommendations?
I'm new here, so this is all new to me. I'm interested in your comments, if you can still talk about it, on what a better process for us would have been.