Some of you alluded to this, but I think this will become more clear the longer you're in Ottawa. With the RAD, I think what is intended is that those appeal judges or members would be appointed. They would not be members of the civil service. After 15 years, I see underlying many problems the conflict between whether the important decisions about people's lives are made by civilians appointed by a government who, no matter how lousy they are, are still accountable to the government, and a civil service that would like to control that process and seize it as their turf, their territory, and their right.
I generally sympathize with them, because I think they're terribly overworked, but I have certainly heard some of them say “The politicians are the renters; we own this place.” And I think that's underneath this.