Right now the task force is deliberately made up of people who are not content experts. They are experts in their own fields, you know, but they are not experts in the topic that they're handling. They do that because, again, it's this idea of not having skin in the game or not having bias or conflict of interest, but I think it's throwing out the baby with the bathwater because, then, you not only eliminate bias or at least specialist bias.... Actually, you don't eliminate bias because they're biased. Everybody has bias.
In my opinion it should be—and I think this is probably what most Canadians believe to be true already—experts in the topics who are leading the guidelines, and methodologists at their side assisting them, sort of shoulder to shoulder, working together towards good guidelines for Canadians, and not this idea of leaving the experts out of the room.
I always liken it to school kids marking their own homework and shutting the teacher out of the room. They give themselves good marks, so it seems well and they have good marks, but they don't know what they don't know. Unfortunately, they need better guidance from people who do understand the context and nuances. You cannot use a blunt tool like GRADE, which allows you to include only, for example, not diverse data—it's a very blunt tool—and expect to get a good understanding of what the nuances are.