There are two things happening with this amendment. The first is that it's simply clarifying that the current assistant deputy attorney general of criminal law would act as the DPP until such time as a DPP is actually appointed. So the current version of Bill C-2 required that to be a year and it's an inflexible timeframe rather than a more fluid one, which is once the appointment process can actually be completed.
The second thing the amendment is doing is also putting in place a mechanism to allow for someone to act as the Director of Public Prosecutions in the event that something happens to the assistant deputy attorney general of criminal law, again because there's a gap until the appointment can be made. This is just again putting in place a bit of a safeguard in case something were to happen to the assistant deputy attorney general of criminal law.
(Amendment agreed to)
(Clause 125 as amended agreed to)
(Clauses 126 and 127 agreed to)