Quite frankly, Mr. Chair, if Parliament decides to create a separate Commissioner of the Environment, that will be the decision of Parliament. The only point I am trying to make is that the Commissioner of the Environment, to date, has done audit work, according to professional standards, and that there seems to be an expectation or a desire for the commissioner to do different kinds of work.
I just wanted to make the committee cognizant of the fact that auditors cannot get into the kind of work that some would wish us to do, and that should be part of your consideration in looking at this motion. So in defining what the functions would be, it is very important to keep the policy advice and future-oriented analysis separate from audit. That was strictly all we were trying to bring forward.