Yes, I think this is a really good thing, and I have to give the credit to my predecessor, Charles-Antoine St-Jean, who some of the individuals here--Mr. Murphy, Mr. Christopherson--would have seen at committee. He started the policy of having chief financial officers.
We've always had the senior financial person, but we started off with this policy of having very strong qualifications, requirements around experience, education, and so forth. I feel that the community now is strong. I'm not saying that everybody has to be an accountant necessarily, but we talk about our tier-one big departments--that's about 95% of the money. There are 22 or 23 of them. Out of all of those, I think every chief financial officer has a professional accounting designation, many of them coupled with MBAs. I think the one who doesn't has appropriate business experience. So the qualifications are there.
The other big part is that what this policy really says is that the chief financial officer is an important person around the table, just like in the private sector. They have to be part of the decisions and part of the operation, be responsible for risk management and all those important things. I think that has happened really well and has been well received.
The other part is something that this committee did around supporting the notion of accounting officers. The deputy ministers now who are accounting officers need that, and they know they need that. So it's actually worked very well.