Thank you, Minister.
I would now like to put a question to Chairperson MacLauchlan.
Mr. MacLauchlan, as I said at the outset, we appreciate the importance of taking diversity into account. However, I wonder how you go about it. You want to see people from diverse cultures and racial groups appointed to the Supreme Court, and we all do. Today, we are pleased to welcome Justice O'Bonsawin.
Of course, you have to assess the qualifications of the candidates, which I think is the ultimate criterion. We want to have competent judges. I am sure that both the minister and everyone else want the same thing.
Do you proceed by using a list? For instance, it could be lists that include white men, white women, black men and indigenous people.
How do you go about considering diversity while evaluating the best candidates?