I'm still trying to get a sense of the difference between the role of the secretariat and the role of the commission. It has always been the privilege of the Prime Minister to appoint certain key positions—for example, the head of the CBC. Recently the heritage department and the CBC have undertaken a headhunting process to make sure that whoever comes in actually knows something about broadcasting. But then it would still have to go back to the Privy Council. Was there not always a budget in place to vet appointments and to ensure that whoever the Prime Minister was giving his imprimatur to was the right candidate?
