I think the own-motion power—with the premise that this power would require the agency to demonstrate there is reasonable and credible evidence that there is a problem that is not unique to one complainant, or that there are other systemic issues that are incipient or are about to develop—would enable the agency to get ahead of the issue and try to provide preventive guidance or measures or mitigating measures.
I do not believe, as many do, that somehow this could create a rogue agency and that we have to leave it to Parliament and the minister to do everything. I think that comes back to governance. If you haven't got a way of putting an administrative management team in at the agency and governing it properly so that they're doing things in a responsible way, then you'd better go back and look at the governance that you're using that would allow an agency or an agency head to become a rogue. To me it's a pretty straightforward thing, and if it were the corporate sector, I can tell you they'd figure it out pretty fast.