Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  As I mentioned earlier, I am a part-time commissioner. I hope it doesn't appear that I'm in any way conflicted. But this would make a whole lot of sense. There's already an existing institution that has been testing merit-based appointments for 50 years under a regime, and it is

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes. That's one option, indeed.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No, other than to say thank you very much for the opportunity of being here this afternoon. I'm going to follow your work with great interest in the coming weeks.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  One of the points I'm trying to make in this presentation is there have been so many new changes brought in over the last two or three years to improve accountability that we already have a very strong accountability regime at the federal level. This will just add more to it. T

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I just heard that myself a few minutes before I appeared. This doesn't really surprise me, given the massive range of the legislation. I guess that simply means that as a committee you're going to have to work through the constitutional and other types of aspects of the bill. Y

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I entirely agree.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think, if I may, I'll just say that in my own experience, having done many public opinion surveys for the Government of Canada over the last 25 years, I have never heard of an instance of people giving verbal reports and not written reports. What I'm saying is that I think in

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Pardon me for answering you in English, but that's easier for me. Simply to say, I think this is exactly the type of issue that should stimulate some very important discussion. Paying people to report on others is a dramatic departure from the way we traditionally administer pu

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  To answer your second question, I don't think that's a problem. I think you can just go ahead and do that, as far as I know. But I think you're going to be getting advice from others who are more knowledgeable than I am. When it comes to the acts of the appointments commission,

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I guess the point I'm trying to make is that it's really Parliament and the committees of Parliament that dictate how successful any of these models will be. That is to say, if you make use of the information, if you bring forward the data in a venue like this, to debate and disc

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for the opportunity of being here this morning. I know that all of you have spent many hours in the last week debating and discussing this bill, and I have very much been looking forward to having a conversation with you about it. I'd like