Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think I will stick with Evidence for Democracy for now. I was going to ask about the Naylor report card that you presented, but Monsieur Blanchette-Joncas just did that.
You also put out a report on transparency in government research and policy, called Eyes on Evidence, in January. I wondered if you wanted to expand on that. I'll ask you a specific question about how transparency can or should be built into government legislation and policy. I was peripherally involved in drafting the species at risk legislation. It was built on a model of transparency. There was scientific evidence presented to the government by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. The government then made a policy decision, but the evidence on all that chain was clear and public.
I'm wondering if that's a model that is used in other pieces of legislation or policy—or should be. Perhaps you could give me a sense of where we are in Canada with using evidence in policy-making.