You say in your recommendation 2 that NACOSAR should have a bigger operating budget. We are not surprised when organizations like yours come to make requests like that, but I am struck by something in your recommendation 2: you feel that the council should have more administrative independence. It is as if you are telling us that you have to be accountable and that that perhaps is the basic problem.
Do you feel that this lack of independence has caused the council's current problems? How does all this play out? Why are you here today trying to tell us that there should be more administrative independence? What facts do you have that cause you to say that? What has happened that leads you to make that recommendation to us? Has there been interference from Environment Canada?