Sure. Thank you.
The ethical wall was established by my signing the acknowledgement that I am bound by it and distributing a memorandum to the distribution lists that the members see, advising people that it now exists.
The next step, as you might expect, is that briefing sessions, both within the PMO and PCO, will occur later this week to describe its functioning to the people charged with administering it and who will be dealing with it, and to receive any questions or clarifications that need to follow.
What will happen, both on the public service side of government and on the political side of government within ministers' offices, is that when anybody is preparing a briefing note or a policy initiative that they think might or might not touch on an area covered by the wall, they will elevate that to their direct report and ultimately to chiefs of staff within ministers' offices and the deputy chief in the PMO. On the public service side, it will go to Monsieur Roy and Mr. Wild.
Those individuals will set in place procedures that are outlined a little bit in the documents I've given--protected documents, password protections, double envelopes, all those kinds of things--to make sure that information is dealt with. The Prime Minister is never deprived of advice, so the information is dealt with by people other than me in a timely manner.
Whenever there's doubt about whether something touches on the wall or not, there's a process in place for that doubt to be elevated to the Ethics Commissioner in a documented process. So the question itself and the answer to it will be documented, I think to meet the standards of transparency that we want to see in place.