With respect to the agents of Parliament whom you enumerated in quoting from that passage, the Accountability Act provides for the new appointment provisions for those agents of Parliament. So that's been done.
With respect to the appointments at large, as I've said, we've run more than 100 selection processes while this government has been in power, and we're aiming to increase the scope of positions that are covered by these open selection processes.
We have an office of 35 people to manage a population of 3,000 GIC appointees. There is a physical limit on how many selection processes we can run in parallel. We went by order of priority, with heads of agencies as the first priority. We're running selection processes for the heads of agencies, CEOs, and chairs of crown corporations. We're encouraging organizations such as VRAB, IRB, and the Parole Board to run their own pre-qualification process to select qualified individuals who can then be submitted for consideration by the government.
At the end of the day, what matters is the quality of the appointment being made and the quality of the person. I don't see past political activities as being a bar for being qualified. The question is, does this person have the right background for this position?