Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Fleury, on the subject of Mr. Ellis's experience with the advisory panel and the selection and appointment process, I believe he made it very clear that he thought the process had become very politicized, both with the previous Liberal government and with the current Conservative government.
I believe in his letter to you of June 2006, on the problem around appointments and reappointments, he said: Of course, the problem has been exacerbated by the fact that the new government's policy of non-renewal of Liberal government appointments comes on top of the Liberals' own unaccountable failure to appoint the bulk of the candidates who came through this merit-based system successfully in the past and were recommended for appointment.
Mr. Fleury, do you agree with Mr. Ellis's assessment of the experience in that statement?