The mandate we were given, Madam Chair, was to come up with recommendations that would make the process more efficient and more focused on principles. Our recommendations, I think, should move in that direction, because that was the mandate we'd been given.
Evidence of meeting #43 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was secretariat.
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