Mr. Speaker, I was saying earlier that we are against merging the two commissioners' offices. It is increasingly evident that the two organizations have different mandates and cannot work together. People try to convince us of the opposite, saying that unification would save money and so forth. But in both cases, what is really needed is additional personnel and more tools to improve the services provided.
Both commissioners have said in this regard that they are currently battling with Treasury Board to obtain the resources they need to do their jobs.
I would point out that these two organizations do totally different work. Things have changed since 2001 and we have to respond now to the expectations of our modern society.