Mr. Chair, it brings me back to the fundamental point. We can look at vacancies and we can look at processes, but the real measure that matters is the timeliness of decisions.
We identified here that it took 16 months to appoint an individual with the expertise in economics needed to hear cases before the tribunal at the time. If you need that type of expertise, and you don't have it, it doesn't matter if you're only one member below your maximum number. You may be well above your quorum and that type of thing, but if you are missing a key competency, then it can affect the ability to make decisions.
Again, the key measure on all of these things is whether these organizations are able to make the decisions on a timely basis. If they are not, is it because they don't have the number of members? Maybe the reason is something else.
In this case we were able to see that with the number of shortages we identified, it seemed to be having an impact on the actual decision-making of some of these organizations.