I think our colleagues will have more to say on the hiring process, but certainly members should be required to take a substantive test on refugee immigration law and human rights administrative procedures.
Again this is rumour, because it happened before I started practising in this area, but I believe that they did that when they initially switched from GICs to public servants, and from what I've heard, so many GIC appointments were failing the test that it was embarrassing, so they took away the substantive portion.