I can, absolutely.
I think one of the first things you'll see in our report is the fragmentation of the rule set. It's a central strategy, but it was allowed to remain a strategy for 30 years, without implementation tools from a policy perspective. Therefore, as I mentioned, there are a variety of different sources that one would look to in determining compliance with the strategy.
If you were looking for the strategy as a document, it's next to impossible to find a document that cites the strategy verbatim. There are multiple references to this strategy, but actually finding the strategy that identifies all of the elements is essentially very difficult. It's something that we asked for, and it was very difficult to obtain. That's the starting point.
As for who needs to be consulted, the way the recommendation is worded is specific. It's “in consultation with”. That's really important, because this is not for the government to do alone. It's also respecting what's already happening. ISC is already working in the background—not even in the background, but in the forefront—on implementing this recommendation.
The recommendation just brings accountability to the process. Again, I'll cite those timelines that ISC puts forward in terms of implementation of a response to the recommendation. We are hopeful that we'll see both movement in fall 2026 and successful implementation in 2027. They are doing the requisite consultation.
On the first recommendation, I think there are steps in motion to ensure that all of the seminal tenets of the strategy are going to be captured in a respectful way in the policy. Just to echo the simplification component, it has to be done in a simple way so that everyone can glean what their responsibilities are without confusion.
