Again I can't speak for the steering committee, but I hope we have those officials come before this committee to answer those specific questions.
The second area I want a comment on is following up on Mr. Christopherson's comment dealing with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. They have been before this committee on many occasions. There have been a lot of problems, I would suggest, over the years, and they don't seem to be getting any better.
One of the biggest problems this committee has found, and we've made it part of our recommendation, is the turnover in the deputies. I think they've had about five deputies in the last eight years, and even the last deputy just seemed to be getting going in the department. I heard last week that the government has taken the deputy who's there, after about a year and three quarters or a two-year tenure, and moved him to Environment, and they have moved in someone who has never been a deputy in Ottawa before and has had no experience with Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Obviously he's now getting briefed and is finding out where the washrooms are, and this is going to take a six- or eight-month period. He's going to come before this committee to talk about the wonderful things he's going to do, so I just see the whole cycle repeating itself.
Do you have any comment? You've lived through this over the last five years, Ms. Fraser, but do you have any comments? This is not the way the private sector would operate their businesses. Do you have any comment as to how this evolution of deputies compromises the effective administration of a department?