I think it's important to understand the culture of entitlement to which the Accountability Act was a response. The previous government appointed the then justice minister's chief of staff to a federal bench; appointed a defeated Liberal candidate to head up the environment round table; appointed Alfonso Gagliano to become our ambassador to Denmark; appointed a Liberal MP, John Harvard, to be a lieutenant governor; and appointed Yvon Charbonneau, a Liberal MP, to UNESCO in order to make way for another candidate to seek elected office. We also have André Ouellet and other examples like this. That is where this comes from.
The difference here is we are seeking to appoint qualified people to necessary positions. I want to focus on one recommendation that you made that we have accepted as a government with respect to the Immigration Refugee Board advisory panel, and that is that those candidates who are considered for appointment must pass the necessary test in order to demonstrate their merit for the position. In the past, 28% of those who passed through the system had failed the test.