Before we go to the second round, I have a few questions myself.
I've been at this end of table listening to every question. As has been indicated, this has been going on, I guess, for 13 years since the first strategy was implemented by government. Since then, we've had a lot of studies and reports. About every second year the environment and sustainable development commissioner goes in and does an audit, and recommendations are agreed to, and audits are usually not satisfactory.
Another office was opened up in 2005. Every year there have been more commitments and undertakings. But it doesn't seem that anything at all ever gets done in the whole thing. This is 13 years later, and we're here now; another audit comes in, and it's unsatisfactory, and the recommendations are agreed to.
I know it's a horizontal issue and it goes across departments, but there seems to be a total vacuum in leadership. I'm trying to point to some individual in government to say that this person or that office or organization is responsible. To me, it's just a big conceptual mess out there. I'm not following at all as to who is responsible.
I don't have a warm, fuzzy feeling that if we come back in April 2010 we're going to be one step further ahead, because I don't see the person identifying himself or herself as being in charge of this file on a pan-government basis and saying it's going to get done. I don't hear that out there.
Mr. Thompson, my question is to you. You've been on this for a while; you've done your audit. Is there anyone out there in government who really cares about this particular issue, in your opinion?