Yes, absolutely, it is a very important decision. My audit advice to the committee would be to think seriously about this. It seems to me this is an historic opportunity, just as it was 10 years ago. A certain path was taken then. I think we've come up against the limits of that path, just the structural limits.
There are three options, it seems to me. One is the continuation of that historic path, which has some real strengths. I've tried to make that clear--some real strengths. Another one is to create a commissioner, a forward-looking position that could do all those other things we've talked about but leave the environmental audit function to the Auditor General. That's the one the Auditor General herself has said could be a possibility. The other one you saw from my oral presentation is my argument to create a fully formed commissioner who can do both forward-looking work and performance audits. You need to have them in the same shop.
This is an historic moment, so I don't think you should rush into it. I think it would be good to hear from some of these other commissioners in these other countries who've struggled with these same issues. And maybe you'd want to have some of the other people who've been involved.
We've both been involved in various ways--for 10 years I worked very closely with these people, and Mr. Desautels, of course, was the boss of the first two commissioners. So we're only part of the story. If you really want to have a full assessment, I think you would have to have more people in.