My last question is on the issue of technology. As politicians we are extreme generalists, and our friends at Treasury Board will say, “We've heard this and don't worry, we have a great new computer system. Once it's installed we'll press all the buttons and say it's excellent and it works for us.”
I always think of a story that a friend of mine who worked at a South African gold mine told me. They did all their accounting by hand, year after year, and they were never late until they brought in a computer program that was going to speed up work. He said for the next ten years they never managed to get an accounting fact sheet in on time because there was always a problem with the computer.
It might be anecdotal, but with the complex issues you're dealing with in the various provincial jurisdictions, do you actually think there is a program that can do this in a quick way? Or will we have to go back to tried and true trust in the expertise of the people we're hiring?