It's a good question. If you're going to have a truly independent commissioner with that kind of authority, I think a cleaner version would be, then, to give the commissioner the appropriate authority through legislation, etc. That takes it out of the political cockpit—however legitimate that debate is—in terms of a vote in the House of Commons with all the attendant drama, if you will, that goes with it. It makes it very clear that it is not, in fact, a political issue but a conflict of interest issue. It gives the particular fine and sanction, and then it has the appropriate force.
I don't know how you would write that in law, but I think that would be a cleaner way of doing it.