I think I would take the question more broadly. I'm quite neutral about the issue of bringing the commissioner under the Director of Public Prosecutions. I don't think the arguments that have been made against that hold a lot of water.
There are two issues that could be corrected simply. The first one is that there have to be provisions in the law that give a flow of information between Elections Canada and the commissioner. Second, the powers of the commissioner should be the same as those that are given to other people under the Director of Public Prosecutions. It is clear and normal that the powers of inquiry of the equivalent commissioner with respect to the combines law, which is basically for economic crime, are more extensive than the ones you give for crime against our electoral system. That is wrong.
I think there's a good argument to bring them together, to bring them under the Director of Public Prosecutions, but basically it should be the same powers for everybody under that organization. It would be a simple change—