I appreciate the interventions that have been made by Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Duncan. However, when we empower the minister under section 3 to make a decision as to whether or not a review should even be conducted, it seems rather counterproductive to me to then bind the hands of the minister to, in section 5, ask permission for the commissioner to report on the review. If he's bound in section 4 to report every 90 days to the commissioner anyway, then one could logically assume that if in the past 90 days the minister has decided to report in section 5, why would he or she need the permission of the environment commissioner to do so? If this is the sole discretion of the minister, as outlined in section 3, why are we bringing the Commissioner of the Environment into the reporting part of it in section 5?
