I think every government gets elected with the best of intentions. The test of a government is to remain true to those values.
My view of committees and the work of committees has been formed as somebody who served on committees for a long time and who took the work seriously and became frustrated sometimes. This is the fifth committee, of both Senate and House, that I've appeared before since becoming Treasury Board president.
Some of the toughest questions are actually asked sometimes by Liberal members, and I think that's a good thing. We don't as a government provide questions to government members to ask us. We want to hear from them, because you're legislators; you all have a responsibility. This is something that's in our Parliament. It's not just opposition members who have a responsibility to hold the government and the cabinet to account, but government members, and not just in a caucus room, but at a committee. This is valuable.
I don't want to be partisan; I just want us to do the kinds of things that are consistent with what we've committed to, both in terms of specific commitments but also broadly in terms of an open and transparent government and trusting people, trusting Parliament, and trusting citizens to help us inform the decisions we take as a government. I think we'll get better decisions.