Very briefly, Mr. Chairman, what I was trying to raise here is that the value of members of Parliament is often obviously underrated and in fact often devalued by some quarters. I think that if we are going to spend the time to do a report of this nature, we have a very good suggestion from Wolf about how we keep that in mind as we structure further reports in the future for those kinds of mechanisms.
I agree with Ms. Gallant that we should have a mechanism to establish whether the committee will say, okay, in six months, we want to know where you are. There are 17 recommendations here. I might suggest that there are one or two in particular that I think maybe we should go back to the government on, but beyond that, on the others, let's see where we are. What's the progress? What's the update on this? To ensure that we are accountable--we are accountable to those witnesses, we are accountable to the public--regardless of whether we're on that side or this side, we want to be able to say, yes, we accomplished something. We can look at it, as in the quality of life. I was around many years ago when that was done, and yes, we can look at that and say we did something. The only way to keep government accountable is obviously to have those kinds of mechanisms.
So I'd like to see that--not a make-work program--and at the same time.... You know, I'm not going to disagree with everything in here. I don't disagree with everything in here. But there are maybe one or two things where maybe either we weren't clear enough or we need to provide more information or the government needs to provide more clarification. So we could do that, but also for the future, that's what I'd like. That way I think it will make us all better at what we do.