I think it's long overdue that the Department of Fisheries has direct-line reporting similar to the RCMP. I don't believe that you should be hiring directors general—supervising conservation, protection and enforcement in Ottawa—or regional directors in Halifax who have never been trained as fisheries officers, who have never done fisheries officer duties, who are bureaucrats who don't know the people they're directing and how they're trained, or how they should function in potentially very dangerous situations.
I think there should be direct-line reporting from the area, perhaps to the regional director, but direct-line reporting similar to what the commissioner is in the RCMP. I've made this argument many times. How would we react as citizens if the commissioner of the RCMP had never been trained as a recruit at RCMP depot, had never progressed up the chain of command, and all of a sudden was put in charge of the whole organization? Would we expect any police force in any major city to have a police chief who was a bureaucrat and who was never trained as a police officer supervising a city police department?