Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is perhaps rather a housekeeping amendment that committee would like to make here and it has to do with the interpretation, or the potential interpretation, of the notion that any member, when an adjudication panel is appointed, the bill as proposed suggests that the chairperson of the panel shall designate any member of that panel, et cetera. It may be interpreted that any member is a sole or single member to hear an issue. Committee thought that the chair of the adjudication panel should have some flexibility to appoint more than one member where it may be deemed necessary. An example of this may be where there is an expectation of an exceptionally long or complex case, that it may well serve the interest of the issue to have more than one member designated.

We are proposing some changing, Mr. Chairman, to allow that flexibility to have more than one member of an adjudication panel serving.