Thank you very much, Minister.
With all due respect to my colleagues, there appears to be a lack of understanding on their part of the way the government operates.
I'll give you an example. The Treasury Board establishes procurement policies, but it doesn't concern itself directly with procurement. Instead, Public Service and Procurement Canada has that responsibility. I believe the relationship is virtually the same in this case.
We seem to be downplaying the role of the Treasury Board. If my memory serves me, improvements have been made to the provisions of part IV, V and VI and to subsection 41(5) of the act. The Treasury Board will now have a duty to intervene, whereas previously it merely had the power to do so.
Would you please explain the difference between what the Treasury Board would now have to do and what it previously could do?