I very much agree with Mr. Levine on this. The American systems are highly partisan. They're not seen as being objective as ours are. I think the key is ensuring that the commissioner is always seen as someone who is non-partisan and objective and competent.
With regard to that, I think in future the system for choosing the commissioner could take a lot from the provinces. In any of the provinces, an all-party committee of the legislature advertises for the new commissioner when there's a vacancy and makes the recommendation to the cabinet for the appointment. So everybody agrees on it, and everyone trusts the person who's chosen. In the Senate they informally sort of follow that model here too.
That's something to think about for the future, not currently. Maintaining impartiality is really important. This is why in our system for the really serious breaches—let's say the commissioner finds that a member or cabinet minister has been in a real conflict of interest, and it's not trivial but a serious situation—it's left up to the House of Commons to decide what the punishment should be, because, in the end, we have a system of legislative supremacy.