I have a couple of questions before I to go to Mr. Poilievre.
I have two questions, Mr. Dubrow. One involves government responses. That's one area this committee doesn't seem to follow up on too closely. We sometimes spend a lot of time and effort and energy doing our reports. We make, as far as I'm concerned, good recommendations. A lot of times the recommendations that come back from government are satisfactory, but in some cases they're not. Really, I don't see any mechanism for what we can do. I guess we could write another report, but that just gets back into a continuum.
Are there any best practices out there from an international perspective--I don't think you're going to see it from a provincial perspective--where this particular issue is handled better than we handle it?
I can give you an obvious example here. We filed a report with the previous government dealing with ministerial responsibility and a few issues. It arose basically from the sponsorship issue. We made four recommendations, and when they came back, basically all were unsatisfactory, as far as I'm concerned. I think the committee members agree with me on that.
We re-filed the same report with the new government. Three of the responses were satisfactory, but one recommendation, dealing with tenure of deputies, was basically the same answer, that really it was none of our business; it's a flexibility issue, and the government will do whatever it wants to do. I don't think that's very satisfactory, myself.
Do you have any comment on best practices that are out there from an international perspective?