The Golden Scissors Award is something we started a number of years ago to recognize good work in the area of cutting red tape. It's not politically all that glamorous to cut red tape, which is one of the reasons we don't always see a lot of action in this area, so a number of years ago we thought that it's one thing to point out the problems—of course, we're good at that, and we like to do that, too—but that we also needed to start rewarding people who are doing good work.
That's really what the golden scissors is about. We're pleased with a number of elements of the regulatory modernization work that's going on, including one of the recommendations that I think everyone here is making, which is to set up an external advisory committee. That's something we've been wanting to see, as well as some of the other structural pieces that are happening under regulatory modernization, including the omnibus bill. We're very pleased with that as part of the solution, but we also believe that more needs to be done in this space.
Canada is a bit of a leader. We're really at the beginning of the beginning of the work that we need to do, but many developed countries aren't even at the beginning of the beginning. Canada has been a leader, and I think we should all be really proud, too, of the non-partisan nature of a lot of this work, the passing of the one-for-one requirement with all-party support, and committees like this looking at the issue. When I go down and talk about this in the United States, that is certainly something they are really envious of, and the Golden Scissors Award is part of that.