In the time remaining, I'd like to turn to public appointments. It's been talked about, as of late, and even tried.
In a motion passed through the House last May, we as a party put forward an ethical appointment process, and competence-related criteria were put front and centre so people could see that. The government would submit the criteria and have an oversight so that the committee could look at it and say, yes, the criteria make sense, and the government publicly released the criteria. The criteria would be there, if you will, to measure the basis of appointments, taking the appointment process out of the PMO and allowing it to be done by another party.
When we look at the Public Service Commission, you mentioned that it has changed in scope. One of the things I had considered is to not have it solely in their domain. I think it's important enough to have someone do it and to have a separate committee do it, with the commissioner separate from government, but to perhaps have the Public Service Commission provide an audit to make sure it's being done.
I think you mentioned that there are over 3,000 appointments. We certainly don't want to have one committee making those appointments an oversight, but to have an audit function that already seems to exist, in terms of the skill sets of the Public Service Commission, to allow them to do that. I'd like your comments on that.