16. The committee may, on the subject of anything in an applicant’s application or any aspect of a candidacy or of the candidacies as a whole, consult in particular:(1) the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse;
(2) a professional order of which a candidate is or was a member;
(3) the Comité consultatif du travail et de la main-d’oeuvre established under section 12.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère du Travail (chapter M-32.2);
(4) the Health and Welfare Commissioner;
(5) (paragraph revoked);
(6) the Conseil du statut de la femme;
(7) (paragraph revoked);
(8) another agency on which the law confers the function of advisor to the Government or to a minister, as well as the various groups that are devoted to the defence and promotion of human rights and freedoms and that the committee considers the most representative.