I'll follow along from Ken's question and maybe be a little more blunt.
I'm probably not going to get a lot of agreement around the table, but in listening today to the St. Lawrence Seaway authority, multiple port authorities, multiple bridge commissions and authorities, not to mention a slew of municipal governments, my conclusion is that this area is overly governed. I don't profess to know exactly who is responsible for what, but it seems to me that we have a lot of people working for what I would call quasi-government agencies and I don't know how much value is being added by them all being independent of one another.
In a previous life, 10 years ago, I was a minister of health in Alberta. We had nine regional health authorities. We had four other authorities: the cancer board, the alcohol and drug abuse commission, and whatnot. With the stroke of a pen, we got rid of them all and had one authority, called Alberta Health Services, which is responsible for the delivery of health care throughout the province of Alberta. Costs have gone down. Working together has gone up. Service has certainly not declined.
One of the things I've concluded, unless somebody can show me differently, is that this seems to be an area that is overly governed.
That's all I have to say. If anybody wants to make a comment, go right ahead.