Let me give you an example. Canadian Heritage has an office in Moncton with reliable people, as far as I can see. Otherwise, they should not be there. Regional organizations take their projects to Moncton. The staff in Moncton already knows the organizations. They can go through the binder rather quickly and tell the department what their recommendations are, that the follow-up is the same as in previous years, that that is what they recommend, that they have good notes on the organization, that it is serious and that it is doing good work. There is no need to go and get someone from Ottawa who will not understand anything in the binder and who will ask questions for six months. That is one of the problems. The decisions should be more local, and the recommendations too.
On October 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.