I think there are a number of issues that essentially lead to where the government's position is and some of the changes in the legislation. You rightly pointed out that one of the four key elements there is to ensure that the independence of Statistics Canada, and obviously the head of the agency, remains and is not, as with other deputy ministers, subject to serving at pleasure.
It's not unlimited, of course. The chief statistician, moving forward, would have to also equally be accountable for the decisions he or she makes and have to make those transparently. When a questionnaire is prescribed or an agreement is made to share data, and so on, those would also become equally....
The decisions that are made by the chief statistician would become equally transparent and it would be for cause that a chief statistician could be dismissed. It's on good behaviour, essentially. It's not an unconditional five years. There are some conditions there. That would make the agency and the work it does, represented by its head, more independent and in law.