The director of public prosecutions doesn't deal with provincial prosecutions; it deals with prosecutions under federal law and with prosecutions that would otherwise have been done by the Attorney General. It just makes the DPP more independent from the cabinet of the day and more transparent.
The communications between the justice minister and the DPP have to be done in writing. In addition to that, I think members on the LIberal side moved that this individual be approved by the House of Commons before being appointed, which is a very interesting development.
I don't think the Accountability Act is about more rules. In fact, it isn't about more rules. There are not a whole lot of new rules in the Accountability Act. The new rules were already created by the previous Treasury Board president, as you pointed out. We call them Reg's rules, and there is a book.
I remember that when we first got there for our briefings, they said, this is the book, this is what we deal with, these are the 200 new hoops we jump through every morning on our way from our coffee to our desk.
I guess I'll pointedly ask the question. We get a lot of generalizations in this committee. People come before us and say we need more effort put on this, or more effort put on that; we need fewer rules, more rules, more oversight, less oversight. What I'd like from you is a to-do list, and I mean a very practical to-do list. What rules do you want chopped? What steps do we need to take? If you could ask the President of the Treasury Board to do three very tangible, clear, practical things, what would they be?