Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to follow up for a few minutes on this idea of cross-departmental coordination. I think I see it slightly differently from my colleague across the way. One of the criticisms that I feel, and that I've been guilty of making myself, is that there are so many individual ministries that are almost like silos doing their own thing, but there's not enough cross-departmental cooperation. I want you to confirm for me whether my thinking is correct on this because, for me, it would seem a great advantage to have those departmental deputy ministers discussing, at an early stage, the implementation or the production of some new policy matters that will eventually come up. Obviously one department may take the lead on an issue, but for example, in the area of bioproducts, that issue could affect agriculture, it could affect health, it could affect transportation or the environment. So for me, this idea of cross-departmental deputy ministerial committees is a good one.
I would like you to help me understand if that's the kind of negotiation or discussion that goes on in those committee meetings, as opposed to actually developing a hard and fast policy that will be implemented tomorrow.