I certainly don't come to the committee thinking that we need to ask for resources. I don't think there's any issue there. I think that certainly within Treasury Board Secretariat we have the analysts that we need to do the job they're doing. They have the training that they need to do the job they're doing. I think with experience we get better at it. Again, I think we're doing the best job we can to put forward the best possible policy advice that we can. I think we're doing the best we can to put forward fulsome policy advice that includes as many different perspectives as possible. We do our best to try to identify if we think there are going to be any unintended impacts on anyone out there.
The difficulty really is that it's even more nuanced than the way you were putting it. I certainly don't want to portray it as though it's us versus them. It's not. It's a system that's designed to allow us, as career public servants with experience and expertise in public policy development, to provide ministers with robust policy advice, but we do it in a non-partisan way. We do not take into account political considerations. Those political considerations are absolutely legitimate and need to be taken into account by ministers. With respect to the balancing act that they then have to go through for the decision that they arrive at, again there always ends up being this discussion of winners and losers. They may feel there are certain constituencies that their decisions are supporting, while others may not feel that way.