Well, I think what is certainly recommended in the Arar report is that the overall coordinating committee in respect of national security be composed of the chair of the new RCMP body, the chair of SIRC, and the CSE commissioner, as well as an independent person who would chair the committee. That independent person, hopefully, would be someone who has a great deal of respect within the community, because as you say, transparency and accountability are important to these review mechanisms, particularly in the national security area, Those are the two important values.
As far as the individual bodies are concerned, I think SIRC is a good model for the new RCMP body. As we know, SIRC is composed of independent people who are normally former politicians or cabinet ministers with a great deal of public policy experience, who have the respect of the public; and as a result of that, what they do gains public confidence. The CSE commissioner is normally a former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, who obviously has the respect of the community. So I think we need people like that who would gain public respect.
As far as legislative oversight is concerned, I think these bodies should be responsible to this committee, as well as to the Senate committee, on an annual basis, or on call by this committee when you feel something has to be reviewed, so that we have an independent arm of the executive responsible to a legislative committee and ultimately to Parliament, which is, of course, the parliamentary system in which we exist.
Thank you.