Checklists can be important. I agree with you, they shouldn't be an end unto themselves. Sometimes they can be very helpful in terms of making sure you go through all the issues.
Our job is doing good policy analysis and making sure good policy analysis takes place. That means looking at things like risks, benefits, and consequences. It means looking at who the winners are and who the losers are. It looks at the mitigating factors.
As officials, the last thing we want to have is a surprise in terms of any kind of an initiative that moves forward, that somehow government was not aware there would be some kind of an impact, or a dramatic negative impact, on a group of stakeholders that we had not brought to their attention.
We try to do the best work we can in terms of doing the policy due diligence in PCO, in terms of trying to facilitate that work happening with departments to try to advance good policy and good programs at the end of the day that benefit society at large and that don't have differential impacts. That's what we try to do. We may not always succeed, but that's certainly the effort we try to make. It's in that process, to put all of that together.