Thank you.
Madam Chair, we did what we could as professionally and efficiently as possible in the time available. I'm talking about the past, because I've not been involved in this for the last several months, as I was appointed elsewhere, but I believe we did very effective groundwork.
In order to move on a code of practice, the secretariat, which is made up of officials, would need the guidance of the commission. The code of practices that we've looked at elsewhere vary significantly. There are some that are thick tomes of rules and regulations. The movement in a number of jurisdictions is to say the code should be something that is extremely understandable, practical, and meets the objectives, some of which I laid out a minute ago. But the kind of code that the commissioners would like is a decision for the commission to make.
On the role of the secretariat, as in any supportive group—