Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a couple of things. Again, those who sit on these committees all swear an oath to be impartial and operate and so on. There's nothing to say that civilian members can't be appointed to the committee, nothing at all. I'm not sure it needs to be enshrined in the legislation that they must be in some proportion or other.
The other thing is that the ex-military people are just that; they are now civilians. They've been out of the military for some period of time. They've gained experience through other jobs or other careers and so on that they've gone on to. So there is a mix in fact of military outlook and civilian outlook in the same person. There is nothing to say that a properly qualified pure civilian couldn't be on the board at all. That's not restricted at all. They can appoint whoever they want.
As Mr. Dryden said, probably over time it has evolved to totally military or ex-military at this point. Again, I go back to the fact that these ex-military will have been civilians for some period of time and will bring that broader perspective.
I don't think enshrining this so that we must have this number or that number is the way to go in legislation. But I'll defer to our subject matter experts for some advice.