I don't know. Up to a point, perhaps, but the demands from the public on government have increased. The public wants government to be more accountable than it used to be, and accountable in more ways than it used to be. That tends to multiply the complexities rather than simplify them. You might be able to simplify some aspects of government.
Something I did not mention in my opening remarks, but which I think is a quite important undertaking, is that the President of the Treasury Board and the Prime Minister really agreed with the observations the Auditor General and Judge Gomery made: you have too many regulations; you have too much red tape.
Mr. Baird announced last April that he wanted to reduce that by 50%. There's a question of how you qualify it, but the point is that there is an attempt being made to simplify that aspect of government, and three very expert people have been working on it. They'll be giving their report to the government in about three weeks. I attended a meeting with them in Toronto last week.
I would think that might be an interesting subject for this committee to take a look at, at some point, because it's going to be an example of an attempt to simplify government, and see what you make of it.