As I mentioned earlier, I am a part-time commissioner. I hope it doesn't appear that I'm in any way conflicted. But this would make a whole lot of sense. There's already an existing institution that has been testing merit-based appointments for 50 years under a regime, and it is now implementing a new one. It would be, frankly, very little additional work to ensure that the processes by which order in council appointments are made....
By the way, members of Parliament would know that in the life of a four-year government, they might make over 3,000 such appointments through the process we're talking about. So this is not a trivial exercise by any means.
It does take an infrastructure. Already a group in the Privy Council Office has been created, in fact, as part of this commission to begin the process of figuring out how we are going to make 3,000 appointments in the course of a four-year period. We already have an infrastructure. I would look at that.
The other thing I would say is that the United Kingdom, for instance, has been running a public appointments commission for at least, if I can recall, eight to ten years, with enormous success. So there are lots of good success stories out there that we can easily model.
I really applaud the government's efforts to set up the commission. Where you place it, of course, is your own choice, but there are lots of different vehicles that are possible. I'll leave it at that.