Mr. Chair, if I may just add one further thought, if members of the committee were to consider this, further to Colonel Gleeson's last point, I'd suggest that perhaps the reason that generally the legislation prescribes a standard or requirement for someone to apply for a position is that certain qualifications are considered desirable or necessary to effectively perform that function.
However, in phrasing in a negative fashion such as this amendment purports, what one is doing is establishing a quota. You're going to have a certain proportion of people who are not former military. And of course given that it's a competitive process, the danger of prescribing a quota in any environment is that one may distort the quality line or the quality level of people appointed. Say, hypothetically, 30 people applied and 25 of them were former military and their qualifications were miles better than the other people who applied but who didn't have that qualification. The difficulty with the quota aspect of this might be to reduce the quality of the people appointed to the board. That's just a relevant consideration for the committee to bear in mind.
Thank you.