Thank you for the question, Ms. Pauzé.
The mandate should be very broad, given how much catching up Canada has to do after decades of climate inaction.
By the way, the first international climate conference was held in Toronto in 1988. So the Government of Canada should have taken action a long time ago. I think this inaction is a reason to give the commissioner a strengthened mandate.
I brought up the example of New Zealand. New Zealand's commissioner of the environment has a very broad mandate, and I recommend an equally broad mandate for our commissioner. That mandate includes the following elements: investigating any issue that could have or has had a negative impact on the environment; assessing the capacity, the performance and the effectiveness of the government's environmental management system; and providing advice and information that will help people maintain or improve the quality of the environment.
Under such a mandate, the Canadian commissioner could provide his advice on bills and recommend legislative amendments, as his New Zealand counterpart has been doing for a very long time.