That's why the Supreme Court of Canada said two very important things. They said yes, fundamentally, the allocation of public resources rests with the Parliament of Canada. But--and there is a “but” attached to that, as a “but” attaches to very many other aspects of the supremacy of Parliament--there is a necessity to ensure that there is an institutional sieve, which is the commission process, to ensure that we don't end up with a clash between government, which is the payer, and judges, who are the payees, in this quasi-employment relationship that can politicize the process and destroy their independence.
So yes, it is very important, because absent that institutional sieve and the process behind it, we run the very real risk that we incrementally, slowly, over time undermine the importance of the judiciary and the independence of the judiciary.