Madam Chair, habitually in the departmental unit in the minister's office we dealt with senior officials simply because we didn't have the time to deal with every official in a department. There's a lot of traffic going through the minister's office, and we needed to make sure we were using our time efficiently.
In this case, we felt that if we brought together particularly directors general and directors, this would be the most efficient way to have a conversation about the kinds of language changes that were being suggested to everyone.
Yes, we were handling these on a case-by-case basis before. If it's helpful—