Mr. Speaker, I see a number of people who would like to ask questions so I will make this brief. Yesterday the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates had the pleasure of reviewing the nomination of Ms. Moya Greene as the new president and CEO of Canada Post.
The process has been laid out by Treasury Board. It includes that the board must establish a nominating committee, that there be advertisements in every major newspaper in Canada, that there be a comprehensive evaluation and that criteria be set out. Treasury Board has laid out all of these things. This is the second time we have done it. The first one was in fact for the chairman of the board of Canada Post; these are also articulated.
As I look at the fourth report I see that the basic recommendation of the committee is that the standing committees to which these appointments may relate need to do this and need to review the criteria. The existing criteria under Treasury Board say that there has to be a professional recruitment engaged in to produce all these documents so that there is the most appropriate articulation of those criteria.
Having said that, I want to ask the member whether or not the committee that recommended this had seen the Treasury Board guidelines and whether or not it felt that the thousands and thousands of appointments that would be covered by this is a reasonable thing for standing committees to do on a mandatory basis, rather than having the option to review.