Actually, the evolution of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development probably has an interesting parallel. The Office of the Auditor General started doing audits on environmental issues in the late eighties, early nineties, and it was really about environmental management. So there were a number of issues done, probably on the more obvious areas--fisheries, management of natural resources, things like that.
In the mid-nineties there was obviously a lot more attention being paid to environmental issues, and government, I presume, would have had some policies in place around environmental management going back into the eighties, at least. But in the mid-nineties there was a statement by government or a will by government to strengthen environmental management, and at that point there were modifications to the Auditor General Act, which required the departments to produce sustainable development strategies every three years, which instituted a petitions process, and which created a Commissioner of the Environment in the Office of the Auditor General.
Now, in the work that the commissioner does--the audits--there is no change. We didn't need to have a commissioner legislated in our act to do those audits because the office had been doing them already for several years. What it did change was the requirement to audit the sustainable development strategies, which were new, and to manage this petitions process.
So we don't need a commissioner per se in legislation to go into these areas.