If I may, just quickly, I want to thank Ms. Shanahan for raising this.
In my experience, more and more it's becoming clear to me that it's that follow-up work that is the important part of what we do. Again, for the one and done—where people come in, they have a hearing, they say the right things, they make promises, and they leave—if we have no means to hold them to account, and they know that we have no means to hold them to account, they know that time is their friend and as time goes on it will all get forgotten. I know this for a fact because that's the way it was when I first got here before we actually got serious about going after the follow-up.
Internationally, this puts us on the cutting edge. We were recently in London—you, Madam Chair, and Mr. McColeman. One of the first things we talked about when we talked about our action plan was how we do these sorts of things, which is the basis of the info, and they asked, “What's that? What's that about?” They were interested in doing it.
A lot of this follow-up is the new era of doing this job correctly and we're on the cutting edge of that. Ms. Shanahan is putting herself and her thoughts right at the front edge of our work too. I just can't underscore enough the importance of this. It's boring. It doesn't get a lot of attention but if we don't have the means to follow up on the commitments that are made, this whole process just falls apart and we are only a fraction as effective as we need to be as the premier oversight committee of Parliament.