We've been following this for some time, since the IRB came into existence in 1988. Our observation is that there have been problems with the appointments throughout that period, whatever the colour of the government in place, and there are various ways in which the system is politicized.
We have made progress, because there is now a selection process that is independent, that is non-partisan, that interviews and tests potential candidates so at the end of the process you end up with people who are found by the process to be competent. Those candidates are then transferred to the government of the day to make the appointments or to not make the appointments, and to do the reappointments or not.
That process then remains a process that is in the hands of the government, and it is, as we see, subject to various considerations. There is not only the actual rationale that is used by the government to appoint or not to appoint, but there's also the perception that exists.
The perception out there, both among the advocacy community and from what we hear within the Immigration and Refugee Board.... The rumours fly fast and furious and there are many different interpretations that are laid on it, on what is going on. But because the process is political in the way that it is, those perceptions will persist.