I do think that this whole-of-government approach I spoke of earlier is something that we as a nation should undertake, with leadership from the federal government. When I talk about that, and when we talk about that at the bureau, it's not like we've created this out of thin air. This is what other countries have done and are doing.
In the 1990s, the Australians had a productivity commission where they examined 1,800 laws and regulations with a view to enhancing competition throughout the Australian economy at the federal level, and the Australian states also participated. It resulted in a significant increase in the Australian GDP of 2.5% as a result of that work. It was worth about 5,000 Australian dollars per household, which was a significant amount of money in the 1990s. There's the Australian example.
The United States currently has a whole-of-government approach to competition in the American economy. There's a White House competition council where all of the secretaries of the various departments in the U.S. government are tasked with identifying competition problems within their areas of remit and fixing them.
We're not talking about something that hasn't been done elsewhere in the world, but it's something we desperately need to get to work on in Canada if we want to solve the problems we have.