Yes, and I'll go back.
I'm being very candid. As I said in my opening statement, we made extensive recommendations to the government on amendments to the act. One of them was to protect the independence of the bureau. It's very important. It's an international best practice for it to be an independent organization. The second was that the market study power should also be independent, and the commissioner should have the ability to initiate a market study that allows us to use information-gathering powers in the act.
We were very clear on that. We said that a lot of caution has to be exercised in the minister being able to direct market studies because there's a risk, whether it's real or perceived, of politicization of these studies and the use of these studies for politicians to direct the Competition Bureau to go into hot-button issues that may not be the most important competition issues for the bureau to examine. To a great extent, it takes out our ability to prioritize where we want to look and where we want to give recommendations to government on how to improve competition in Canada.
It's something we flagged. At the end of the day, we're very happy to get the information-compelling powers, but we would respectfully suggest that maybe it ought to be a combination of the minister being able to direct and the commissioner of competition being able to initiate a market study on his or her own volition in order to advance those inquiries.