Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I'm fine.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  During the last Parliament the issue was raised before this committee that Dr. Shapiro was going to take the position that the information we obtained from spouses, common-law partners, or dependents would be used only for the purposes of advising the member. The initial intentio

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the conduct of inquiries, again the code requires that this activity be conducted in private. If information is coming to our office, we're not making it public. If it's being made public by some other means, then that's not a matter under our control. But if information is fl

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Although we haven't had any situation of this up to this point in time, through the existence of the office we have had disclosures from individuals where they come to us and they have interests in a private corporation. As a consequence of having interests in a private corporati

Procedure and House Affairs committee  But the code requires a liability. It doesn't make a distinction between a mortgage, a loan, a guarantee, and so on.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I explained this in the previous Parliament. Through the experience of a conflict of interest adviser, the overall initial disclosure gives the adviser a position on the overall net worth of the individual. It's not necessarily that the case will occur, but there are annual revie

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thanks for the question. This is something that has come up in the inquiries that we conduct. Again, if I can draw the distinction between the public office holder code, which is not this one.... Under the public office holder code, the Ethics Commissioner has the power to sum

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We made the comment in an issues and challenges paper that the Ethics Commissioner should have that authority.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In relation to the second part of the question, in formulating section 35 of the draft policy, we went to the U.K. or Westminster model, and this is one provision they have specifically in there. In the conduct of inquiries in the British Parliament, any attempt to obstruct an in

Information & Ethics committee  The Parliament of Canada Act says that it's a member of Parliament or senator who can make the request for an examination in relation to the public office holders who are covered. That's what the act says. The amendment in the code was making a statement that could have been inte

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  We actually dealt with this issue in the Grewal-Dosanjh inquiry that was conducted under the member of Parliament code. The issue there was also the status of an individual to raise a complaint. We have cited some references in that, so if you wish, I can bring that document to y

Information & Ethics committee  I just want to clarify something. I said it was in the Grewal-Dosanjh case, but it was in the Harper-Emerson case.

Information & Ethics committee  In our office we have jurisdiction under two codes. So my response could be broken down into investigations under either the public office holder code or the member of Parliament code.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you want it by year?