Yes, it looks as though it's long overdue that there be some very clear benchmarking between departments. Some are doing such a great job and others are doing such an apparently abysmal job at reporting and monitoring.
It's too bad the Department of Fisheries and Oceans isn't here, Mr. Chairman, because one of the things that really concerns me is that a review hasn't been done—I'm trying to get the exact number here, but I think it was for over a decade. Now they have actually said they will commit to a review by 2010.
But previous reviews have said that their fees were far too low, and there is no evidence that they're going to have an interim increase while they're waiting for this next review. We have a decade-and-a-half of a fee that taxpayers are paying too much for, because they are not getting the full value for it.
I hope that somehow that will be communicated to Fisheries and Oceans: that they may need to consider an interim fee increase that might be nominal compared to what past reviews have said they should increase it by, while they're waiting for the exact answer in 2010 from their present review.