What I'm suggesting, and what these two recommendations are meant to reflect, is that from COSEWIC's perspective vis-à-vis those sections of the act that pertain to COSEWIC, we feel that there's not a huge need for change. In large part, I think it's because the act was written in such a way that it was meant to reflect what COSEWIC had already been doing for the previous 25 years before the act came into play. So as a consequence, perhaps it's not surprising that those sections of the act seem reasonably good from a COSEWIC perspective.
The two suggestions we've made are in part meant to increase COSEWIC's ability to fulfill its legislative mandate. In my role as chair, that's one of my responsibilities. The two recommendations were meant to do that. They were not meant to point fingers. They were not meant to be derogatory. They were meant to find a way to basically strengthen the means by which this act can be implemented. That was the spirit under which they were suggested.