We are undertaking a large review of the Treasury Board policy suite. It's been under way for about five years now. The idea is to modernize the policies and ensure they are in keeping with deputy head responsibilities.
In 2009 the government decided to rework the responsibilities of deputy ministers on human resources relative to the responsibilities of the Treasury Board. In order to ensure that they had the full responsibility they were supposed to have, we reviewed this policy.
The old policy was inflexible in specific work environments. We thought it would be useful to do this so that deputies could target the specific issues of their work environment that the old policy did not address.