To add a little colour commentary, I would say that it's not only at the political level that there's been a lack of use of these documents. As someone who worked 27 years as a public servant, I can tell you that those documents weren't often used as planning tools, even within the departments. So that's a fundamental problem that needs to be fixed.
Can we make those documents better so that they're more aligned to the votes that parliamentarians are going to have to make? Absolutely. What's stopping us? Actually, I don't think there is anything stopping us. I think if you folks around this table said, “This is the way we want our information: we want it on a program activity basis, we want performance information, and before we vote, we want decision-support information when we're looking at new legislation”, you would get what you asked for. We can change the system. I think all you need to do is tell us that, and we can deliver the goods.