Maybe I can start.
First off, I think you'd have to qualify your question further, in the sense that it really would depend on the topic of concern. Yes, there is no question that there are good science advisers within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. It's a matter of who is determining what the priority to address is, with limited funding and time and people and so on, and how you go about it.
Previously in the science branch, when I was within the department, we would hold annual science review meetings and we would talk about where the money was invested and what the particular priorities were that we were going to invest in.
When Mr. Taylor was still in the commercial fishing business, we would have meetings and would fill our boardroom with industry advisers to talk about the issues they had and what was uncertain and what was poor data. There are lots of good people in the department to determine this.