Certainly the ultimate purpose in having an independent committee is that it will have legitimacy with the public. The more independent the committee is from the government, the more legitimate it will be with the public. What that means is that what we have to be careful about—and I'm not suggesting that anyone is trying to give anyone arbitrary powers or anything—is what this committee is doing, who the committee is reviewing.
The committee is reviewing CSIS and the RCMP. CSIS and the RCMP and other agencies report ultimately to the Prime Minister, so the more separation there is between the Prime Minister and the executive and the parliamentary committee, the more independent it will be, the more accountable it will be to the public, the more transparent it will be.