The road map and its successor were the fruit of many consultations. At least, the action plan took enormous consultation in the beginning of 2000-2001.
We acknowledge in the English-speaking community that we were not quite ready for all of the initiatives being considered by the seven or eight departments at the time. The only place we were really ready was in health. There was a crying need for access to health services and a lot of work was done around health. The other sectors are quite lacking in structure, so the action plan had a huge impact in health but the other sectors were not great.
It's not about who and what. We weren't quite ready...our capacity. That's why we say in this speech “our evolving capacity”. Since 2000, the capacity of the community has grown and we've learned from good practices in health how better to work with the province in certain sectors.
In evaluation, Treasury Board policy evaluates the design and the delivery of a program at mid-term or at the end, where you make adjustments to the actual program. We were absent in many. Unless you do some special kind of analysis to say the English-speaking community was not there then, and then ask are they ready now, or is there a quid pro quo because we can't do that there.... Our point is that with all of the work that has been done, both with the action plan and the many millions of dollars, we will never be able to have a benefit in many sectors because it's already set. Many of the programs that were taken on by the road map were programs that had already been initiated with the action plan. So you can see that we're just moving along with older thinking--