One of the things we've consistently heard from a lot of the external forces, the checks and balances, the offices that are supposed to keep our government overall but certainly DND accountable, such as the Information Commissioner, the Privacy Commissioner, the ombudsman himself.... We had a scathing report in 2023 from the Military Police Complaints Commission stating that there was a refusal to release necessary information and that many of these offices do not have the jurisdictional teeth or enforcement to do so. I've tried to bring that forward in a piece of legislation to provide the ombudsman with independence.
I'd like to hear your opinion on whether independence is important, and on what further aspect of those teeth, to ensure that we're as transparent as we possibly can be, is important. Where do we need to go with that?