Thank you.
I'm going to use the chair's prerogative to ask a question.
I look at SIRC and its membership, and I see people such as Chuck Strahl, Deborah Grey, and Yves Fortier. Two of these people are former parliamentarians. Their expertise would be similar to that of the parliamentarians we're appointing.
You have a budget of $2.5 million. This has a budget of $3.2 million and the potential of more expertise than SIRC would have, with $700,000's worth of smart people, with the capacities of the Governor in Council appointments being similar to those of the parliamentarians who are elected by the people of Canada. I'm trying to figure out why yours is called any more expert than the committee of parliamentarians, who have an equal capacity to hire experts and who have similar backgrounds at the executive level.