First of all, all Cabinet Ministers including myself take the committee input and the new committee system seriously. There is a difference between setting strategic goals, setting capital spending and O and M spending and administering government. You cannot administer government by committee. You have to manage government and that is what your Cabinet Ministers do for you. The committees work with the Cabinet Ministers to set strategic goals, strategic planning and to some extent, and to a great extent, where the capital and O and M dollars are spent. Committee reports are treated seriously, but committee reports are exactly what my honourable colleague said, recommendations. Sometimes, we take the recommendations of the Cabinet and occasionally we do not. I think on average we have really moved on a number of the recommendations made by a number of the committees. I can tell you one that I am dealing with right now. I said it earlier to Mr. Erasmus on the Affirmative Action Report, for example, I believe we have agreed to 89 percent of the committee recommendations. On some of the recommendations made with respect to the strategic initiatives of this government, we have agreed with committees on a number of things. I recall a major one that to be the amalgamation of transportation and housing corporation and public works. We did not do it based on committee.
There is a genuine effort and attempt to try to incorporate as much of the committee recommendations and advice as we can. To some extent that is the definition of consensus, but it does not always occur. It would be fair to say that.