I obviously cannot comment on the circumstances surrounding Madame Gelinas, and I would take some exception to the word “dismissal”, but I obviously can't go much further than that.
As the legislation is established, the Commissioner of the Environment is an employee within the Office of the Auditor General, has the same status as any other assistant auditor general, such as Mr. Thompson and others. So the decisions over hiring and all the rest of it, and the naming of the commissioner, are ones for the Auditor General.
Agents of Parliament or officers of Parliament have a different regime. We are Governor-in-Council appointees and have certain protections, if you will, within our act about how Governor-in-Council appointees—the Auditor General and others—can be dismissed. The Auditor General can be dismissed, but only after a vote of the House of Commons and the Senate.