Thank you, Madam Chair.
Again, thank you for being here.
Item 1.69 in the recommendations in the report indicates that Treasury Board Secretariat, Privy Council, and Finance should document the challenge function they exercise when they review the spending initiatives and policy proposals submitted by departments and agencies for consideration by cabinet. The response from the agency was that they disagreed, and that it's the primary responsibility of sponsoring departments to conduct the appropriate analysis in respect to new policies and programs. It seemed to me that this was rather a circuitous kind of response.
Is this acceptable? And secondly, what kind of response to this entire report would you like to see from government? How would you like to see this government react and deal with this report?