Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Mr. Toner, Mr. Desautels.
First, I'd like to tell you, Mr. Desautels, that, in the past, we have always appreciated the rigour of your reports and those of Ms. Fraser. Among other things, your work enabled the opposition to question the government more effectively. Your reports were very rigorous in that regard.
I'd like you to go back to the end of your sentence because that's ultimately the main argument. We wonder why the Commissioner of Official Languages and the Privacy Commissioner have their own offices, whereas the Commissioner of the Environment can't be independent. What do you think warrants us having an independent Commissioner of Official Languages and a Commissioner of the Environment who has to report to the Auditor General? I suppose that, before getting around to creating that position, some factors led us to make it so that the Privacy Commissioner and the Commissioner of Official Languages didn't have to report to the Auditor General.
Why then is that possible for official languages, but not for the environment?