Independence and independence of mind of the ATI coordinators is vital; it's important. I'm not sure that the proposal to make them order in council appointees is the answer, because what we saw in British Columbia and in some other provinces is that what used to be bureaucratic, neutral civil servants in the communications department were changed into order in council appointments specifically to bring them under political control of the government of the day.
I don't quite understand, given that experience, why we would go down that road. In terms of ensuring independence, having provisions in the act about interference with the work of the coordinators is probably a better way to go about it.