I thank the member for his question.
At the moment, the way the contract and assignment of resources are done, we do not take a freelancer's expertise, experience and profile into account—whether they are a former lawyer or a biologist, for example—when we assign them.
I am proud to say that we have employees with varying backgrounds. We are certainly going to know this anecdotally, but it is not one of our criteria. In exceptional cases, we may need a freelancer who has specific skills for a study a committee is doing. We will then look at freelancers' up-to-date profiles and resumes so we can assign them to the committee in question. This is de facto invisible to us. Interpreters are deemed to be of a certain quality. That is how we will assign them.
For the moment, when we select a person, we do it randomly. Price is not a factor at this time. We rely on their expertise in assigning them.
