Let me answer those in reverse. This also goes back to the previous question.
With respect to the autonomy of the commissioner within the Office of the Auditor General, the reality is that the commissioner is sort of a second level official there, as part of the Auditor General's team. There's a real requirement for team play and being a team player.
Sometimes if you're a commissioner you're going to have to be a lone wolf. You're going to have to be out in front of what everybody else is doing and thinking. In fact, that's one of the commissioner's functions.
You've asked what they would be. They're things like getting out ahead of the policy function or policy debate by deepening the knowledge base in society, feeding into policy through advice to Parliament, enriching and advancing the thinking on what the policy construct needs to be in the future, responding to parliamentarians to do forward-looking work, and playing a valuable educational role in society, because the commissioner wouldn't be caught up in being moulded by the political mood of the day—the way parliamentarians themselves are.
So there are a number of sort of forward-looking functions that a commissioner could play, but not in the current arrangement. This simply could not happen, and no one says it could.