We probably all wish we did know whether it's just a check mark that this person fills a certain category or cultural identity or gender or whatever or whether it's someone who has an inherent understanding through their life experience and their professional experience of what in fact is the diverse nature of the country. Diversity can go well beyond the things we traditionally think of as being diverse in terms of an individual. Do they understand the nation? Do they understand their role as a justice? That kind of diversity I don't think we've delved into as deeply as we have what I sometimes call the check mark notion of diversity. In a country like Canada, I think we do ourselves a disservice.
The Supreme Court, especially under this chief justice and previously Justice McLachlin, has really worked hard to make a reality of diversity. We have people from not just different areas of the country but different types of background. I mean, the candidates we proposed were not just bilingual; they were trilingual. You have people who are still trying to work that out, but I think it's important that we have the visual of diversity and the reality of diversity across all kinds of different scales.