I had occasion to read the committee's transcripts from its November meeting in which the former interim environmental commissioner testified that really this was a policy decision back in 1995 to make the federal commissioner only an auditor, and subordinate to the Auditor General.
I would just simply say we've seen it run its course and maybe it's time to revisit that policy decision some 25 years later. Some things have worked but some things need to be improved, and as I say, based on the Ontario environmental commissioner experience, there is a role for policy advocacy that should be housed within an independent environmental commissioner at the federal level.