To answer that, I would have to go back to the creation of the advisory board. When the agency was created in 1987, it really needed a systematic approach to seek out feedback from people outside the public service. Things have changed since then. Now, we regularly organize consultations that are a bit like round tables. We hold meetings with all the stakeholders, be they senior executives at the agency or the minister. We have a lot of other mechanisms in place to obtain community feedback on various issues. And that really gives us a broader perspective than we can get through the advisory board.
I would also like to point out that the agency is quite decentralized and has a strong presence in the communities. Our consultation mechanisms are quite extensive.
Lastly, I would say that the agency has really matured from the time it was created, in terms of its ability to develop policies and carry out research internally.