Pause there, because that's really helpful. I have a question about the one-for-one rule.
We had the Treasury Board in the last Parliament testifying in front of us about similar issues around competitiveness. I appreciate the need to address red tape in the sense that if there's something duplicative or unnecessary, addressing that and reducing costs make a lot of sense. However, in other cases there are important rules that are in place in the interest of public safety or environmental protections, and casting those measures as red tape is sometimes unhelpful.
I've never understood the philosophical rationale behind the one-for-one rule. It's this idea that we just managed at some point in time to have the perfect number of rules. If we impose a new rule, there should be one fewer rule in some other place.
Shouldn't we be more focused in this conversation around what is unnecessary or duplicative and really gets in the way without a public interest rationale behind it?