I won't take up much time. I just want to reinforce my colleague's second point in the fact that the minister, as we all know, recused himself from any decision on this and was not involved in any way. I'm not certain what we would get and how we would be spending the committee's time by inviting him to come here just for him to say he doesn't know. He wasn't there, because of the recusal that was put in place—a recusal that was publicly known to everyone.
To the third point, Madam Richard served in this post when the previous ethics commissioner was ill and he took a leave of absence. It wasn't a problem then. I'm not certain why it's a problem now.
Thank you, sir.