I hesitate to make any specific recommendations regarding a commissioner, but I can tell you how the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages was established.
During the 1960s, the Royal Commission of Enquiry on Bilingualism and Biculturalism made a number of recommendations to the government. One had to do with the introduction of an Official Languages Act and the establishment of an independent commissioner to oversee compliance with the legislation.
In 1969, the act was passed by Parliament, and in the spring of 1970, the first Commissioner, Keith Spicer, set up his office. The act gave the Commissioner some independence by giving him a seven-year mandate, so that he would be in his position longer than the government. In addition, the act provided that the government could not dismiss the Commissioner if it disagreed with him. The House and the Senate must both vote to dismiss me.
Later, the act was amended to make my salary the same as that of a Federal Court judge. When judges get an increase, I get one automatically. I do not have to go before a parliamentary panel or Treasury Board and there is no collective bargaining. I think the legislation was amended recently once again. When Treasury Board sets the increase in the cost of living at 1.3%, for example, judges and I automatically get this increase in April of each year.