We would definitely support the creation of a new civilian oversight agency for the Department of National Defence.
The mandates of NSICOP and NSIRA are restricted to national security, and there are obviously broader issues of defence that don't fall under those mandates, even though there's an intersection. There would have to be some work on how they can interact around access to information.
Even right now, we believe that NSICOP would be better able to address a situation like the Afghan detainee transfer scandal, but at the same time, there remain restrictions both on their mandate and on what kind of information they're able to access. That may even prohibit or inhibit them from being able to fully investigate even if something like that were to happen today. It would be much better and much more clear.... It wouldn't result, I don't think, in the same kinds of politics and political wrangling that happened at that time, but there are still gaps that a civilian oversight body for DND would be able to fill.