I've only been working in the appointment secretariat since January 23, 2006, purely by coincidence. So I haven't seen how previous governments have operated. If you look at the number of appointments, in fact this government has been making fewer appointments than were made in the past. I look at it in terms of operations and ask whether we are filling vacancies fast enough and keeping agencies fully operational. So I would like to push for a greater number of appointments, but I guess when the government makes a huge number of appointments it then gets criticized.
On March 4th, 2008. See this statement in context.