Thank you, and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here today.
I want to talk about something a wee bit different. CJC talked about how just in the last month it made mandatory training for new judges. In terms of education, it's mandatory that new judges will be receiving it.
We also heard from a previous witness about changes that our government made to the judicial advisory committee to include diversity training and the makeup itself of that committee.
I want to talk about the importance of education versus the appointment of the judiciary and ensuring that we're making non-partisan, independent appointments to the judiciary. If we want to make systemic changes, will that help to deal with it? This bill and nothing we're looking at is requiring current judges to receive training. In the cases that we're citing over and over again, that have caused us all concern, caused all Canadians concern, about the decisions being made, they would not be touched by this bill. They're not being touched by anything that we can do because they're sitting judges.
Could you talk about the appointment process and the importance of that? You could each speak to that if you wish.