Well, I believe confidentiality is not just important; I believe it is at the heart of the process. Respect for the confidentiality, I think, will also affect the number of people who are willing to apply, because these questionnaires are very specific. They contain a lot of personal information for which no one has given permission to be in the public domain.
There's that element, but I also think that because we're an independent group, you reach a point where, if confidentiality is at the heart of what we're doing, there has to be an understanding by the public that we are free, if you will, of political bias or other biases. I think that's probably why we were chosen. It's not the government that chooses us. It's the Canadian Bar. It's the Indigenous Bar. It's the federation. It's a series of groups. The Canadian Judicial Council presents the names.
I just feel that you can go only so far. The right to know, if you will, or the interest in knowing.... I don't call it a “right”. I think we use that term willy-nilly all the time now. The interest of the public, the interest in knowing, is in being able to trust that it is an independent process. The best we can offer is to make that commitment.