In terms of accountabilities, I'll say that departments have to be accountable for the information entrusted to them. The roles and responsibilities of the central agencies are relatively straightforward. Treasury Board provides the policy direction. It gets to the point, though—when there's an event, and the roles and responsibilities are not clear—where there might be delays, or there might be something missed along the way...or in monitoring and ongoing supervision. Who's looking at that? If there is no clarity, somebody might not actually do it.
Our point is that everybody should know exactly what they should be responsible for doing, all of the time.