Thank you.
Welcome, Mr. Dufresne, to the position.
I concur entirely with what Tom said about how impressive your career has been in an area of great personal interest to me, given my own background as a law professor working in broadly defined human rights fields. It's all the more gratifying to see that you have direct and intensive experience with parliamentary privilege issues. To me, it's all the better that you've had to think about those issues in the context of interacting with the general law of the land, especially human rights law.
So welcome. Frankly, I think we're all delighted that you've been appointed.
I indicated to you earlier that the question I am going to put is a generic one. It has nothing to do, as my comments would suggest, with your own appointment. Your appointment—and this is not uncommon with respect to parliamentary officers generally—is an order-in-council appointment, so it's effectively an executive appointment, and yet you're the law clerk to the legislative branch.
Do you see any problems with respect to how you carry out your job, or with respect to perceptions that need to be overcome, because of the appointment procedure? That's the simple question.