I've spoken with several people who have served on the judicial advisory committees, and I don't think I've been told by any of them that the model utilized in the selection process is based on anything other than consensus. So the committees do struggle to come up with a consensus approach, or that has been the historical format.
I think that perhaps the difficult message, or perhaps the unsettling message, that is being given by putting emphasis on voting or on the removal of a vote from a judicial member is that what we are moving towards is a system in which voting will trump consensus. That is not the type of system that will see the best qualified candidates being recommended to the minister for appointment.