Madam Speaker, I will have to go back on my own limited experience at functioning on boards. Some boards have duly elected members from the public, such as the school board that I served on. Some have appointed members who are well respected members of the community.
Whenever a board is appointed its position has to remain neutral and fair. It has to listen to labour, to management, to the government and to the employees.
I have a lot more faith in publicly appointed boards than the member opposite seems to have. I think they are very limited. As a matter of fact I know of no boards that have been held up as gangs that are there to lean one way or the other. Publicly appointed boards serve publicly and have to account to the members they are serving.