Thank you.
Thank you to all our witnesses. I have to say that it's wonderful to get witnesses who come with such very specific recommendations. It's helpful to all of us to have that, not just speaking in generalities, but giving us very specific recommendations.
I'll get to definitions in a minute. In the bill, it says competent persons. I have concerns that we should be adding the word “independent”, and I'd really like your comment on that. My concern is that someone may be competent, but they're not necessarily independent, so it could be someone within an organization who is competent to do the work, but they're not independent from the situation. I may be reading something into that. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if there's a legal definition of competent.
I'd love to hear from you all about what you think about adding the word “independent” in there.