First, as far as the length of the mandates are concerned, Mr. Stewart was appointed from 1977 to 1993 under the Inquiries Act, which did not call for a fixed mandate.
In 1993, he was appointed for a five-year term under the new Corrections and Conditional Release Act. In fact, he was appointed for five years in 1993, reappointed for three years in 1998, and lastly reappointed again for a two-year period in 2001.