It would be an entirely different, albeit interesting, approach. I'm reluctant to speak off-the-cuff about what would be more effective, but it would certainly make it easier to track spending in some areas. As things stand, it's pretty difficult to determine what language training costs are, now that managers within each department are responsible for incorporating language training in the learning plans of federal employees. Spread out over 260 federal institutions, it's harder for us and even the Auditor General to figure out.
If Parliament decided to turn the commissioner's office into a central government agency, we would go from being an agent of Parliament, an ombudsman and a complaints investigator to being an official languages administrator.