It's difficult to say. I can tell you that in the last competition we received one application, and that was from Dr. David Green.
To a certain degree, the numbers of individuals who apply for membership in COSEWIC is dependent on a number of things. Of course, on the one hand, it's their area of expertise. How many qualified herpetologists are there in this country who have expertise on amphibians? I don't know what the answer is to that question, but to some degree it's going to be reflected by the number of applications.