Madam Speaker, let us follow the same logic and principle and apply it to the Auditor General of Canada. Much of the work done by the Auditor General of Canada is done in different ways by different departments. Would the member be advocating that we get rid of the Auditor General of Canada because it is a huge bureaucracy? I suspect not, or at least I would hope not.
At the end of the day, the difference is that this would be an independent agent of Parliament. That is the significant difference. I would ask the member opposite whether he believes that independent agents of Parliament provide a worthwhile service to the House of Commons and to Parliament. I would argue they do.