I think deputy ministers are accountability officers for their departments. I think there is significant accountability there. I think what's important to support the work of parliamentarians and actually just for Canadians is to make sure we are reporting adequately on how those savings are being secured and what the impacts are, both from a fiscal perspective and from a service delivery perspective.
We have a lot of very strong deputies, a lot of strong departments that can come in and say whether there is or isn't an impact on the ability of the coast guard for example, to deliver services--search and rescue, ice breaking--or of food inspection agencies to deliver the kind of surveillance work that they need to do, or of HRSDC to say what it takes to produce a cheque and get it out the door, and what kinds of impacts that would have. Again, I think we need to have a structured analytical approach to determine the risk and impact from a fiscal or service delivery perspective. We think parliamentarians will be well served.