Our management committee consists of 23 or 25 people. It is not, as a result, a decision-making body that can truly have effect. It is an organization that actually needs to own the corporate priorities for the organization and manage the corporate risks associated with those priorities.
The strategic executive committee—I myself, the associate, the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, and the Chief of the Defence Staff—will be responsible for shaping the corporate priorities and objectives for the organization overall and for identifying and managing corporate risks associated with those priorities.
Last, because of the way we managed, we have typically taken a view and an approach to risk that has been very bottom up, which meant that risk was not being managed strategically. The long-term objectives and priority setting were not risk informed, and we, the departmental strategic executive committee, will ensure that at that level and then at the departmental management committee level, the 23- or 25-member table will own the corporate risks for the organization.