Fortunately, companies have shareholders that they're accountable to, there are meetings, and the markets take care of things for them. Right now, what I'm worried about is that we have deputy ministers showing up in front of us here and they've only been around for a month or two. What you're basically telling me is that they're not really the ones, and their signature is symbolic in the first six months. That's worrisome when you have departments with billion-dollar budgets.
This committee has experienced that frustration. In fact, we had recommendations a couple of times saying that deputy ministers should be around for at least a period of three years. It really is fundamentally unfair to make people responsible for a department when they have no idea what's been going on in that department.
I understand that this committee's recommendations have been rejected by the Privy Council. What's the thinking there?