Coming from private business—and my honourable colleague Mr. Falk will probably agree with me on this—there's an old saying in business that if you're green, you're growing. If you're ripe, you're rotten. One thing that I think is important to note is that Canada is an established economy just like the U.S. is an established economy. The way you govern an established economy is far different from how you would establish a new, emerging economy.
If you look at it from a business perspective, if you took over ownership of a company and that company was presenting you with 18- or 20-day month-end reports on the fiscal situation of the cash flow of that company you would say that was unacceptable and that you needed to get to five days.
Isn't that what you would say?
Then you would make adjustments to allow that to happen. It wouldn't take six years, and it wouldn't take thousands of hours of consultation to get there. You would take decisive actions that would allow for a course change correction that would happen in a more timely manner. I think one thing I'm always frustrated about with government is that a lot of times we focus on results. It's very difficult to effect change if you focus on results. If you focus on change, you always effect results.
If you could see this organization unfolding, what do you think the best first step would be that the government could take in the creation of an independent organization that would serve this purpose?