But of course the Auditor General's report says nothing about giving control of that unified service to an outside party or to a party that reports to government.
We have been very strong in saying that we accept the recommendation of the Auditor General that things can be done more efficiently through unifying the protective forces within the parliamentary precincts, but the government has gone a step further than what is actually in that report.
When you talk about accountability, who is this new force accountable to?
We say this is streamlining things and making things more straightforward, but in fact what we're saying is that this new authority reports to two Speakers, the RCMP commissioner, a unified chain of command, and ultimately the minister. It doesn't seem to me that we are in fact clarifying who this force would be responsible to. You talked about a unified chain of command, so in the case of operations, who would this new force report to?