Of course we recommended that these reforms proposed by Mr. Reid be implemented to a very great extent. There were a couple of reserves about some of them, but generally speaking, they were there.
I think that the era of secrecy in government is the past. I am convinced that any government that behaves secretly is eventually sowing the seeds of its own defeat because the public is so insistent upon knowing what is going on. There was a time when perhaps a less-well-educated electorate would tolerate a certain level of secrecy in government, and I think that era is over. I think every government is going to have to recognize that. It's not only the government that resists this; I think the public service resists it as well, and I just think it's too bad. They're going to have to get used to the fact that the public is going to insist on its right to know what's going on.