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Procedure and House Affairs committee I don't know the exact number, but it was somewhere between 20 and 30.
May 31st, 2012Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Procedure and House Affairs committee Those had to do with the code. There were also numerous complaints under the act. We're talking about 60 or so.
May 31st, 2012Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
May 31st, 2012Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Procedure and House Affairs committee There were two inquiries that we completed under the code. There were five inquires that we conducted. In two of those we found breaches, and in three we didn't.
May 31st, 2012Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Information & Ethics committee The process, as it works under the act, is that if it's an investigation or an examination that was done at the request of a member, there will always be a report one way or the other. The commissioner retains the discretion to discontinue in that case, but there's still a report
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Information & Ethics committee We interview many, many witnesses. We gather up documents. You'll see in the report also that, despite having some of these difficulties, we were able to come to a conclusion and we were able to get the facts we needed. Witness testimonies are only one part of the investigation w
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Information & Ethics committee Are you looking to me to provide a summary of the report?
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Information & Ethics committee There was a report that was published, and we can't really add much to the report. There was a finding there. We looked at it under the rules pertaining to preferential treatment, and the commissioner's conclusion was that this was not a case of preferential treatment. The reason
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens
Information & Ethics committee Sure. In the Rick Dykstra case we looked at the role of a member and a public office holder engaged in fundraising activities. We made a number of recommendations--although there was no breach found in that case--with regard to the potential for conflict of interest when a publ
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Eppo Maertens