There are lots of things I could ask questions about, but I'm just referring to your opening statement today, Mr. Edwards.
In the fifth note that you make when you're going through the different things the Auditor General found in terms of the assignment process, you say, “Acting assignments can be, in my view, an important tool to develop promising officers and fill specialist needs, especially in a rotational foreign service.” In my view, there would be a difference between strategic acting assignments that would be based on learning and improving your staff and competencies, versus emergency placement acting assignments that would be the result of bad planning on the department's part.
When you talk about the acting assignments as they have been in the past, which would you characterize them as?