Well, let's take the issue before the committee at the moment. There was an evaluation done of the temporary visa program. The department has responded to the evaluation. It's identified improvements that it can make. All of that is the kind of use of evidence that I'm speaking about.
There are counter-examples that some people can point to, like the injection site in Vancouver, which the government had defunded, where all the evidence, the analysis that was done globally by public health authorities around the world, showed that such an initiative would actually reduce crime and reduce dependence on drugs. I know that public servants can marshal that evidence and present it to ministers and that the decision is ultimately a political one.
When someone says to me, “That was a purely political decision”, I say bravo. The alternative to a political decision is what we observe in Syria. So I'm not suggesting that we abandon the discretion of politicians to make decisions like that. I want to make sure they're taking account of the information and evidence that's available on which to make a decision, and I think that's what the crucial element of this is.