I am a member of COSEWIC and I think COSEWIC works pretty efficiently.
What we envisioned when we came up with this concept and nicknamed it COREWIC is a fairly parallel organization, though of course it doesn't have to be exactly parallel. An independent oversight body has the ability to draw on the broad scientific expertise that exists within the country, not just from academic scientists but from government scientists.
As we said, the independent part is the independence that they have when they're at the table to make things happen, to develop policies and procedures to streamline the process, to help develop norms, to help support recovery teams in getting their documents through, to help in reviewing them, to help provide independent advice on how to get those documents polished up, and to put them out there for public scrutiny and for peer review. That's sort of the process we envisioned.