Mr. Speaker, I would state, without any reluctance, that the CEO should not be consulted on future appointments of the Commissioner of Canada Elections, because that commissioner is responsible for investigating all of the offences in the act, of which 34 apply to the office and the function of the CEO.
How is it possible that we would have Elections Canada recommending the investigator to, potentially, one day, investigate Elections Canada?
What we have made clear is that the future investigator should not be a member of a political party and he or she should not have worked with Elections Canada. That is independence.