Through you, Madam Chair, I think there actually are three distinct areas. One is the advisory function of the commissioner. I give advice on a quite regular basis to members who are concerned and want to be on the right side of things and who consult me before they do something. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. So that is one function.
A separate function is receiving and investigating complaints. Most commissioners across the country and I in Yukon have the ability, if we receive a complaint, to then investigate it, and that may cause some difficulties vis-à-vis the advisory function, which is private and confidential unless the member discloses it or says that they've consulted one of us. Quebec has a different system whereby it provides a separate adviser, and then there's the inquiry function, which I have in Yukon but I don't have in NWT, of separating the inquiry after I find that the gate is opened and there is something there, a preliminary matter. The difficulty with that, Yukon has found, is that it's quite expensive and it takes time. It provides a further independent look at it, but NWT's recent experience was that the inquiry—not me but the inquiry—cost over $800,000.