This leads to a reflection that somebody passed on to me, that the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans probably has more discretion than any other minister in cabinet. He can come in, make decisions, and make things happen, so obviously process becomes very critical. Whom does that minister listen to, and how collaborative is the decision-making process?
Spinning off your earlier comment about the fact that things are always in a state of flux—the players change—I detect that what we may be suffering from is really a lack of institutional knowledge. Every cycle we go through, we are dealing with new people, perhaps even new governments, and we seem to be spending a lot of time re-covering the same sort of fundamental ground and not really moving forward very well.
Do you have any thoughts as to how we could restructure things so that we can build on what we have learned in the past instead of just repeat processes?