Mr. Chairman, a lot of the debate in 1995 was around that, and we made the point quite clearly that if we were to assume the role of commissioner, we would not be able to get into the policy area and be proactive on the policy front, and other organizations would have to be put in place to play that role. The national round table was seen, at the time, as maybe fulfilling that need to exercise pressure on government and on parliamentarians to take certain policy directions on the environment.
On February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.