Let me come back to the ultimate objective, the reason we care about horizontal policy development. The objective of horizontal policy development, which includes regions and headquarters, is to improve the quality of policy outcomes. We have to keep coming back to that objective. I have spent a lot of time as Clerk talking about the element of diversity and how we have to promote diversity in the federal public service. Another element of diversity is the openness of headquarters to regional input.
Policy development is inherently creative, messy, and chaotic.
It reflects national reality. It is worth doing because it will improve the quality of policy and of outcomes. More than ever, we need to set our sights on ideals. From now on, we have to get back to preparing tools and methods for involving the regions in the policy development process. And so I ask you, as participants in this conference, to make your recommendations so that we can move ahead with concrete, specific initiatives.