At the time of the discussions on the Federal Accountability Act, I had actually proposed that the legislation address this, because as you may remember, the Federal Accountability Act was very concerned about ministers' exempt staff moving into the public service, giving them priority over other appointments, and removing that priority. I had no objections if the desire was to do that, but I had also suggested that we had to worry about flow the other way. At the time of those discussions, there was a view that this could be addressed through policy. So there could be a policy solution to that. I had been satisfied that if there were a policy solution, I wanted the solution. I was then told that the policy solution would occur, in due course, when, as Treasury Board was reviewing its policies, it came up. So I said okay. But we're doing our audit, and now another year has passed, and I've had a similar response, which is that in due course, as they review the policies, they will get to it. I really think this should be specifically addressed.
In earlier stages of these discussions we had actually put forward proposals on how this could be done. I think the Public Service Commission, under the current legislation, with our current approach, wants to be very respectful of what the employer's job is. We don't want to move in and do the employer's job. I think this is an employer responsibility, given the current legislative framework, but if anyone has any suggestions as to how we can move it, I'd be happy to do that.