All we want to do is ensure that there are better accountability mechanisms in place. There will always be mistakes when you have an organization with hundreds of thousands of people working in it; we're all human, both on the political and the public service side. What we want to do is put in a better process to identify problems and shortcomings earlier. We don't want to stifle innovation within government, politically or within the public service. We want to recognize that on any given program you're never going to get 100% results. But we want to have processes in place to ensure that we do the very best job we can. Those are the types of accountability mechanisms we're trying to put in place, particularly through the Federal Accountability Act and the federal accountability action plan, which are two big initiatives.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.