The statute provides for the commissioner to report to Parliament on an annual basis on section 38. Section 39 also provides for the commissioner to choose to report on a matter that he or she deems to be urgent or of great importance that Parliament should be seized of.
Obviously I'm not in a position to comment on the origins and the rationale. The report is there. I believe my predecessor explained in the preface why he was doing it. But that was initiated under the provisions of section 39.