Thank you, Madam Gladu.
I would simply state that as soon as the application process was started, as soon as the announcement was made, I personally wrote to 73 legal and judicial organizations throughout the country, including out west and up north, inciting and inviting them to encourage candidates from their various organizations to apply.
Obviously, some people may have reasons that they don't want to apply. They may not want to move to Ottawa. They may enjoy what they're doing. Out of the nine candidates that did apply.... It's not a very different number than for previous processes, and in consideration of the fact that there was one only three years ago, as well, from the same region.... People were given 28 days, which is, again, pretty much within the average of time allotted, for the most part, for previous processes.