Absolutely.
So this has been a bit of a concern to us.
The commissioner and I recently met with the chair of the environment committee, who seemed quite agreeable to holding these kinds of hearings. I think for most committees this procedure is quite unknown. They tend to deal with legislation or policy issues, so the accountability hearing is not something they typically do.
I know the environment committee is planning to have a hearing that would follow this model. I am hopeful, but if I could, I would certainly encourage the public accounts committee to continue having hearings on the commissioner's work, because I think the environment committee, just by the nature of the committee, is going to be more interested in the environmental issue, whereas here in many of these cases we really have to get into the management issues and how these things are being managed by departments.
You have mentioned other reports, and I would also mention that we advise all of the chairs of standing committees, both in the House and the Senate, when we have audits that are related to their areas of responsibility. We will often have hearings before other committees.