I'll jump in quickly. I don't know if I'm going to answer your question, but I think about what policies will ensure that independence is really independence and that it's not tied into any other types of influence. It is just a scientific body.
The other thing I'd draw upon, which came up in the discussion, is about being careful what you wish for with the province versus the federal government and who's in charge. I think the thing to think about is what happens when things go wrong and when decisions are made that aren't fair. In B.C., we have an ombudsperson who can independently judge if things are fair. There's no such federal ombudsperson to investigate those kinds of things within DFO, so that might be something to think about.