Thank you, Madam Chair. The Regular Members do have standing committees on social issues, the economy, et cetera. Cabinet also has committees, so we have the same. A social issues committee, which I sit on; I sit on all of the, actually. The economy, environment, so we have a number of committees that actually Cabinet Ministers sit on and, just like standing committee, any Cabinet Minister is welcome at any time to attend any committee, even if you're not on the list.
We also have deputy minister committees, with the same social agendas; economic development, environment, economy, et cetera. So those things need to be continued. I don't take credit for that; that's something that the Premier of the day has done, and I think that's a great idea, but I think we're still missing the point.
The big thing that I find, and I found that over the four years, is that our meetings are so structured all the time. They are very agenda-filled. We come into these committee meetings and we've got a huge agenda, and we deal with the agenda, and then there's a place on it that says "mandate commitments" and we all say, "Look at the mandates and make sure you're doing your job," and that's kind of it. Then, at the end of the Assembly, we all stress and say, "Did we meet those mandate commitments?"
So I think we need to bump it up. It's about relationships; I've said that all day. Everybody has said that all day. So, looking at the possibility, if we're going to really work together, should we have more working groups with MLAs and Ministers combined? That's a good question. We have a Minister of Transparency at this point; I don't know if it will stay. Cabinet will discuss those things, but should we actually make it part of that position, that they actually check on the mandates on a regular basis? Does there need to be somebody? I think there might need to be somebody who actually looks at the mandates on a regular basis and makes sure that the departments, because the mandates are not one department. It's all departments working together to match a priority, so maybe we need to have somebody accountable to that, who actually is responsible for it, so we're not scrambling at the end of an Assembly and saying, "Have we met our mandates?"
Working together and making people responsible. Thank you, Madam Chair.