Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you, Ms. Beattie, for the excellent presentation.
I'm very supportive around anything we could do to make our public service more inclusive, more diverse, more reflective of Canada. I don't know if you can comment on this. I'm a little surprised that this is a legislative change in terms of our actually having to review qualifications standards. It's odd for me. One would think that would be more of an administrative thing. I wonder if you could just comment in general about that.
The second comment I have is around giving permanent residents the same preference as Canadian citizens in externally advertised appointment processes. I just need you to explain that one more time. I'm very open for permanent residents to apply for jobs within the public service. I'm just trying to understand what the change is. I'm not quite sure why I didn't hear it properly. Is it that right now permanent residents are not allowed to apply for a job, or if they do apply for a job and a Canadian citizen applies for a job, and they're both equally qualified, that the Canadian citizen gets the preference?