One of the things that caught my interest today in the headlines, when I was glancing through them, was “Bureaucrats knew Kyoto unattainable: Public servants waiting for right time to admit failure”. The article talks about how the climate change policy points out that they knew this was an ongoing failure. My question to you is on this matter.
We knew for years that the Kyoto targets were completely unattainable and were a bit of a joke. What sort of time lag does your office have when it comes to trying to gather information such as this or gathering information about how far departments are? It's one thing if you can catch a department not meeting its environmental objectives a year or two after; it's easy to correct. But it's another thing five, ten...I mean, we're way off the targets now of the Kyoto goal.
I guess I'm asking for a question about effectiveness—how effective you view your department to be. Could you give me some examples about how effective, from a time perspective, you are at correcting problems you find in various departments?