Mr. Chair, it is true that the standing advisory committees—and they would have been in place during your time as minister, Mr. McCallum—were dissolved in their current form. As a result, this was one of the items in the expenditure reduction exercise that was announced last September. In lieu of those, we're looking at each individual sector and are working out the right way to obtain input from the particular interest group, whether it's small business or disabled.
If I might use an example just to illustrate, there was also a small business advisory committee. In lieu of having a standing committee, we've regrouped some representatives of small business to look specifically at issues as they affect small business. We started this process late last summer, and we call this an action task force, which has been mentioned a couple of times in the context of paper burden reduction. It looks at what can be done to simplify the lives of small business people.
Our view is that we are more effective working with particular groups if we can target our engagement with them on specific problems, with a view to identifying specific solutions. So we still engage with any interested group.