Yes, that's correct. The way the process works is that, first off, it depends how many places are being consulted upon for a particular province. It may be the case that there's only one, in which case obviously it becomes somewhat irrelevant because there's only one name that will appear on the list of the chief electoral officer. But should there be more than one, in effect what happens is that every name that appears on that list is there because they have exactly the same number of votes. It may be that they attain those votes at different points in the process. It could be on the first counting of the votes or the subsequent counting of the votes, but everybody on there obtains exactly the same number of votes because of the way the single transferable vote system works. Whereas a quota of votes is determined as to how many votes are required in order to be successful, once you reach that number of votes, that's the number of votes that will appear on that.
If you have more, then the excess votes, the surplus votes, will be transferred to other candidates according to the other preferences that will be expressed by voters on the ballots. So in effect everybody ends up with the same quantity of votes. After that, once the list is developed, there's no obligation on the Prime Minister to make recommendations to the Governor General for appointment based on the order of the list. The flexibility is provided to the Prime Minister to choose whomever he wishes from that list and make that recommendation.