Michael Wernick is probably going to rue the day I say this, but for Michael Wernick, who was appointed Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, I can say that one of the factors was his young age, which will hopefully allow for continuity, without any of the events that ruin the best laid plans. One of Michael Wernick's qualities, other than how highly he has performed in his career, is that within the deputy minister community he is young, and therefore there is room for continuity there. That is one factor that was taken into consideration.
We don't disagree with the objective. The objective of ensuring continuity is there. They objective of trying to have as much constancy within the leadership of the departments is an objective that we share with this committee. Where we disagree may be in terms of how to achieve that. We try to achieve that 3.5-year average. We could do better than that, but I'm just not sure that imposing a strict minimum term of three years is the answer because of the flexibility that it would take away. That's been said back and forth in this committee already.