It would apply to evaluation as well. That clearly has to be a commissioner, as distinct from an audit office.
With regard to the role of the commissioner of the environment, we say there are a lot of groups and a lot of organizations that comment on the policy, and you have the policy development, the implementation of the policy, and the tracking afterwards. Very few can actually provide advice or information on how well policy is being implemented, and we say that's the role we as an audit office can play. We can tell parliamentarians, once they have decided on a policy or a legislative framework, how well government is doing at implementing it, and there aren't many other places, quite frankly, that can do that with our independence and objectivity.
It depends on whether you want someone at the beginning of the process who's going to give them more the policy advice, the evaluation, or if you want someone who is going to assess how policy is being implemented and how government is doing. It doesn't mean that there's necessarily one or the other. The audit office can still look at implementation and you can still have the advocate, but if you become an advocate for policy, I think you lose your independence and your objectivity, obviously, in all of this, so you have to be very careful about how you frame the role of that commissioner.