I can give you some numbers as of May 2006. At that time, Ontario had eight judicial vacancies. In terms of candidates for judicial office, there were 36 highly recommended, 114 recommended, and 25 provincial court judges qualified for appointment, which means that they had brought their names forward and were in fact qualified by the commission, although not in the same manner as ordinary lawyers.
There's a different process, which Mr. Cotler can certainly explain. He's familiar with that process.
But Mr. Lemay notwithstanding, there are many who are applying for a position. And that is Ontario, where, as you will recall, the number was $311,000, as opposed to the $294,000 that the proposal would have brought.