It's cheering because this agenda, including greater transparency on executive earnings and more shareholder power, originated in an independent left-centre campaign, which has now reached the door of Downing Street.
The councils' paper outlines the need for new mechanisms to facilitate this agenda, including the creation of a new body for central and local government relations made up of secretaries of state and council leaders, and a specific committee of the cabinet chaired by the prime minister.
I've been watching with interest the latest developments in Wales on this agenda, including the potentially most exciting and ambitious to date – a Sustainable Development Bill (recently given the working title of the Future Generations Bill), designed to put sustainable development at the heart of all decisions in government and the public sector.
This agenda includes the development of standardized sets of basic engineering parts (i.e., standard pieces of DNA that encode precisely defined functions), and design rules for building complex systems out of similar ones (i.e., ways of connecting gene networks to accomplish desired organismal outcomes).
For many Rodriguez backers, this agenda includes making it easier to fire teachers, eliminating seniority protections when school employees must be laid off and increasing the number of charter schools.
This agenda includes strengthening the metacognitive abilities of clinicians, fostering intuitive reasoning and increasing awareness of the role of systems in the diagnostic process.
This agenda included the identification of the six top priorities for research in Ontario: public health performance, evidence-based practice, public health organization and structure, public health human resources, public health infrastructure, and partnerships/linkages.
New bills on the agenda include the Central Universities Bill, Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Amendment Bill and the Agriculture Bio Security Bill.
Other issues on the agenda include defence, education and housing.
Items on the agenda include inter-faith dialogue, the environment and global health.
