Right.
Again, many of these questions are questions I'd love to ask Mr. Morneau. It's unfortunate that he wasn't able to join us.
In a 2017 article in the Globe and Mail, the interviewer asked you about conflict of interest, and you “agreed that potential conflicts must be avoided in these types of discussions.” It says here that you also said that “the nature of the work meant that any recommendations were the product of wide-ranging debate, rather than the opinion of any single member on the committee.” Here it's referring to the advisory council.
Does the fact that recommendations are the product of a group discussion, versus something coming from an individual, guard against perceived conflicts of interest?