Excellent. Thank you.
I guess the big issue with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission was the creation of a sense of a legitimation crisis in the public service, in that our Prime Minister said there was a threat to human health and that threat to human health was directly related to the fact that a Liberal appointee and the Liberal Party apparently were “jeopardizing the health and safety and lives of tens of thousands of Canadians”.
I'm not asking you to comment directly on Ms. Keen's position. But if we are in a situation where a Prime Minister can say that someone appointed by the previous government is a political hack, how does the Privy Council ensure that the present people being appointed by the government, who might be former fundraisers and candidates and so on, are not political hacks and that the public can actually have confidence in the workings of government? Does the Privy Council lay down any strict guidelines here in the absence of a public appointments commission?