The proposal of this committee was in fact to set up a stand-alone statute for the body...that it might be better way to govern it, and it may indeed. The minister's response to that, as I understand from reading the committee notes, is that for cost and time reasons, he wanted to do something fast. We have an ADHD minister who's doing an awful lot of activity and we have to applaud him for getting things done.
The question is whether this is going to work or not. We're not sure. One of the powers that needs to happen is the power to audit, to subpoena, and to actually go in and examine documents in a consultant's place of work. That doesn't exist right now. That's a big hole in the current scheme.
As for whether or not you can do that with just these little changes and the new body that is going to be proposed, we don't know. For us, it's still an experiment. As you read our report...we are skeptical about whether it will work.