The CFNIS, as part of an element within the military police group, is independent of the chain of command where they are working. They have a separate chain of command from the NIS themselves through to the MP group headquarters.
I will acknowledge that the provost marshal does fall under me as the vice chief of the defence staff for administrative purposes to make sure that they are building programs that are necessary, that they have adequate funding and that they're focusing, but I don't have a role to play inside specific police investigations. That is the independence that exists.
Justice Fish's report certainly identified that there is a desire to perhaps create a greater perception of independence by having the provost marshal be an appointee outside of the chain of command. We are examining that as part of the Fish report recommendations.