Earlier, provincial New Democrat critic Nicholas Simons noted the preferred qualifications for children and family development's new quality assurance assistant deputy minister includes both experience at "the international level" as well as "several levels of government." And that, combined with the fact the competition for that position opened and closed during the winter holidays, suggests the ministry already has someone in mind for that job. But who might that be, you may wonder? Well, International Institute for Child Rights and Development founder Philip Cook and United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child member Brent Parfitt are both possibilities, according to those familiar with the ministry. After all, both are long-time associates of top bureaucrat Lesley du Toit. And both have been doing work for the ministry, with Mr. Cook leading a province wide assessment of "What's Working for Children and Families."