Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Minister, for being here today. Ms. Campbell, thank you so much for being here and for all of your good work leading the advisory panel. I think it has led to an excellent choice for the Supreme Court of Canada. I commend you and all of the members of the advisory board for the great work that you did in the service to Canada.
I think it reflects very well on the process to have somebody of Justice Rowe's calibre to be selected and will serve Canada well in the future to learn lessons of what perhaps could be improved.
I'm from Atlantic Canada. I'm a lawyer from Nova Scotia, and I know that my colleagues and I were watching with interest to see what would happen with regard to the custom of regional representation. We believed that that was an important aspect, and it was part of the process.
Ms. Campbell, how did the advisory panel view the regional representation with respect to getting at least, as you said, two names on the short list? How did that happen? Was it viewed in isolation from the rest of the candidates, for example, or was there some other way that the conversation happened regarding the importance of regional representation?