Madam Chair, the people who worked for the department had a great deal of experience within the public service. We started by deciding how we would proceed, and how we would choose our options; we had to write clearly and be familiar with the system. The people who came to work with me had those skills. I believe that the entire group agreed that our objective was to devise a system through which all of the names would be submitted to the governor in council.
On March 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.