Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
That's something the subcommittee could certainly look at in terms of the format. No, we're not looking at nine hours of hearings. I'd like to allay the parliamentary secretary's concerns about that. But we do look at due diligence, and we should be, as a normal practice. Since I started here eight years ago, order in council appointments have been part of the daily due diligence that committees do, in every committee I've been in.
Whenever order in council appointments take place, the committee has that ability to vet, to look, and to examine. Normally that's done through the subcommittee. Our representative, of course, is Mr. Mai. I think the subcommittee could be looking at how to structure that, of course, but there's no doubt that we have a responsibility to do this, and if the committee provides that direction to the subcommittee, the subcommittee can then get to work about how that's done.