You raise two things. I appreciate the question about the public service per se. The biggest driver in retirement from the public service is demographics. I've focused for the last three and a half years on the issue of renewal, because we have an aging public service. We have to increase our recruitment, we have to increase our development, and we have to increase our training because large numbers are going to leave, not because they're unhappy but because they're actually reaching the end of a 30- to 35-year career in the public service of Canada. That's in a sense a consequence of not having hired people through parts of the 1990s, and it's something we're going to have to deal with, and we have undertaken on the part of the public service a number of measures to increase recruitment—more development and what have you.
So I very much share your concern about the issue of losing our people, but we're losing them largely because of demographics and the aging population in general and in the public service in particular.
I'll turn to Mr. Goodman more explicitly, but you raised two issues on the boards. We now have given guidance on terms of reappointment. We have introduced—and Mr. Goodman went through it—a very elaborate process for selection: establishing the criteria that are needed, the selection process, the written exams and testing. That's best practice in any kind of public sector organization.
My understanding is that, since 2006, 128 appointments and 65 reappointments have been made to the IRB, and the board now stands at 84% of its full complement. So again, I think the pace of appointing has picked up and I think that's the direction we all want it to go.