I think it was the result of increased horizontality. Everything we do in government has horizontal impacts. You can no longer easily identify one single department or agency that's responsible for making sure that a complex set of answers is presented to a particular problem. I think the natural tendency was, well, you need strong coordination at the centre so let's establish a secretariat that will play that role. You can understand how that can happen over time. The impact is to reduce the overall accountability for the individual departments and agencies to deliver on those results.
I think it's a natural progression in a stable, mature democracy such as Canada, where complex issues don't get resolved by the actions of a single organization. They require partnership, across government cooperation, cooperation with other levels of government and Canadian society. So it's a natural tendency. What we said is that we're going to push that accountability back to departments; we're going to make sure that one department is going to take the lead and bring the others to work together in the same way.