Can anyone tell us how much this is going...? I see a whole new bureaucracy here. As I go through the letters here, I see the need for a whole new bureaucracy designed to keep information away from you as chief of staff. It's unusual to have to set up a system within government to keep information away from the Prime Minister's chief of staff. That's unreal.
Anyway, going back to Onex, and this was asked earlier.... It relates to the conflict of interest and post-employment code for public office holders. Section 28 says that “former public office holders, except for ministers...shall not, within a period of one year after leaving office”, go to the job related to their former employment.
You indicated you are doing nothing different from what's in the conflict of interest code. But I submit to you that a secretary to a minister would have to stay away from a job related to their portfolio for a year, but you, on the day you walk out of the PMO, will be entitled to go back to Onex. There seems to be a double standard here. You are given special privileges that others do not have under the conflict of interest code.