Mark was really looking forward to it. That's right. He really wanted to go again.
It's an excellent question. I should say that a fundamental pillar of the Government of Canada's regulatory modernization agenda is greater transparency and greater engagement with stakeholders.
In the case of the first annual regulatory modernization bill, the government made clear its intention to have something tabled in 2019. That left us with a very narrow window in which to get the first bill done. We did, however, have a plethora of other consultative measures that we were able to draw from.
You may recall, Mr. Chair, that in 2018, the government announced targeted sectoral regulatory reviews in three key sectors. The purpose was to enhance flexibility in those sectors, more competitiveness and more innovation. Those were specifically agri-food and aquaculture, transportation and infrastructure, and health and biosciences. A lot of the ideas from this regulatory modernization bill came directly from the consultations that Treasury Board Secretariat and the partnered departments held for those regulatory reviews.
It is fair to say that not every single irritant raised could be addressed in this first bill. That was quite simply a measure of the time we had to put together this bill and get it into the House of Commons in 2019. On an annual basis, we will build in strong consultation mechanisms to make sure that stakeholders and departments have the opportunity to be heard, and to make use of this tool.