New Zealand is not a federal state as is Canada, but the mandate of the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, as I said, is very broad and it addresses local as well as central government. It makes recommendations to the Government of New Zealand but also to local councils, to private enterprise, to community associations, to Maori organizations, to the indigenous people of New Zealand.
They don't have federal-provincial dynamics but they nonetheless do have different orders of government and different groups in society to which the commissioner can provide advice—