I'd like to make sure we had a little more time. It's been great that there's been more time for the candidates. I don't think we rushed the work in a negative way, but it was sometimes hard for us to be able to find the time when we could all be together and do justice to the process.
As I mentioned before, we would like to be helpful in helping to generate the pipelines of interested lawyers and jurists to make the process more understood, and if there is a role for us to do that, we would be happy to do it but it may be better conducted by others.
It's interesting. I did a panel at the Supreme Court of Canada Symposium where Bob Ray spoke favourably about the old “tap them on the shoulder” system of finding Supreme Court of Canada justices. I think the fact that it is open, that people apply who would not necessarily be tapped on the shoulder or seen by senior people in the legal community.... While some of those candidates were not necessarily ready to go to the Supreme Court of Canada, they were certainly interesting to see and perhaps refer to the minister as people who might be elevated in courts or given more opportunity to show what they're doing. It's been a wonderful way of seeing the richness out there, even of those who are not quite ready for the top court but who have great skills. Finding ways of making sure that gets communicated to the minister is another part we can pursue.