Yes. When the Public Service Modernization Act was going through, there were a couple of decisions made to strengthen the independence of the Public Service Commission. One was the appointment of the head and the dismissal of the members of the commission. The second one was to provide a clause that would give the commission a direct report, allowing the commission to report at any time it felt it was important to report to Parliament. Everyone at that time took that to mean it was a report directly to the Speaker, not by way of a minister. There's quite a procedure set out for how you report through a minister: you have to give notice, and you have to work with the minister's office.
When the act was enacted, I had these two reports that I thought had timeliness and urgency to them. Certainly I thought it was very important to get the space agency report out, the message being you have to get a new head of the space agency in there, and you have to solve a problem. I thought it was important to get the privacy commissioner report out because a previous committee in Parliament had been very preoccupied about the privacy commissioner not getting full delegation back.
When I went to see about how I could do it—because I thought I could just go to the Speaker and table with the Speaker—I was told that the absence in the drafting of tabling to the Speaker meant it had to go through the minister.