Thank you. I had indicated at the scroll meeting what we had intended to do, but apparently that didn’t meet the muster of the opposition.

I’ll explain what we had asked to do. Senator Deacon and I wanted to speak about this on Tuesday. This motion has not passed the House of Commons; it needs both houses, so there is no emergency. I’ll put our concerns on the record here.

Both of these officials whose reappointments we are approving have been in their roles for a period of time. It was felt by a number of groups, I guess, through consensus that we should just pass this through without any scrutiny at all. They wouldn’t come before us in a Committee of the Whole. We suggested potentially — we being the Canadian Senators Group — that maybe a committee could spend an hour with each candidate. Interested senators could go and ask some questions so that we were, in fact, giving some scrutiny to the renewal — significant in one case — of these two officers and potentially get some concerns on the record that do, in fact, exist around one of these officers and their own report card on performance.

We will do none of that, and that’s okay. We will pass this on division. Thank you.