If you have a multiplication of agencies that are going to be under surveillance, then to me it's a good thing. That's a positive part, because finally we have a central authority that can do oversight of a vast number of different agencies. This is good, but that creates a workload that's very large. If you go down the list of the three mandates, I think that if you limited this committee to mandate (a), which is the political, regulatory, financial, and oversight, etc., then that sounds like it's manageable, but if you go down (b) and (c), and you give the mandate of looking into specific programs across this vast number of different agencies, then to me it sounds like a job for a very large organization and not a committee of nine parliamentarians. Even if they second 12, 15, or 20 staff, it's not going to be enough.
On November 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.