The idea of a consensus and then accountability for a consensus is an interesting one, because it's precisely what was reached at the G8 last year when Canada committed itself to the consensus for maternal and child health.
On the basis of Canada being part of that consensus and then launching a major G8 initiative on maternal mortality, one would have expected transparency and accountability would dictate that there would not immediately have been questions and doubts about what a commitment to maternal mortality would include, in this case whether it would be reproductive health, or whether it would be abortion, or whether it would be reproductive health but not abortion. As of this point, in terms of transparency and accountability, it's still actually not clear what the position of the Canadian government is and how it defines its maternal mortality initiative.