Yes, I think that makes sense.
That said, it's very important to ensure that there is local, regional, or provincial priority-setting as well. Like other witnesses, I am completely in favour of the idea of national priorities and national benchmarks, but there has to be a lot of room for local interpretation and local priority-setting, because there are a lot of unmet needs.
Frankly, I don't think the federal government's Department of Justice, notwithstanding their skills, has the ability to go to rural Saskatchewan and say, “You should be doing it this way,” or to downtown Toronto to say, “You have to be providing this”. I think there's a real benefit in having local decision-makers establish local priorities within a national framework or, as you might call it, a national aspiration.