One thing that may be of interest to the committee is to point out that within the scheme of the Conflict of Interest Act the level of judicial review is to the Federal Court of Appeal. That's in recognition of the fact that the person holding the office of commissioner would be someone who has experience either as a judge, or performing quasi-judicial functions on a board tribunal, and so on. If an amendment were made to remove that completely so that it would be any individual with whatever other set of qualifications, but not those of a judge or the experience on an administrative tribunal, it would be unusual, to say the least, that the Federal Court of Appeal would remain the level where a judicial review would be brought. The norm for that type of decision-maker is that it would be the trial division of the Federal Court.
I just make the point that the scheme of this act is written with the notion that it is in essence a quasi-judicial function that's being carried out, and that the appropriate level of judicial review for those decisions is at the Federal Court of Appeal. If we were to amend that function so that it was no longer a quasi-judicial one, one would also normally want to amend then the level of judicial review from being the Federal Court of Appeal to the Federal Court trial division.