As you can appreciate, what is vested in the commissioner is a lot of discretion to look at the various situations that he faces and to decide how to proceed.
Section 49 is a perfect example of that. The commissioner independently investigates something. If he has reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence may have been committed, he stops right away and he refers it to the RCMP. He is independent, but so is the RCMP, and obviously criminal things are more important than is conflict of interest, so if there's a criminal matter, it has to be looked at first.
If the RCMP decide that they do not want to investigate or they investigate and conclude, then we continue with the conflict of interest issue, but the two should not interfere with each other. We both have a mandate. We both have to exercise it to the best of our ability, and the statute specifically vests powers for criminal prosecutions in the RCMP and for conflict of interest in us.