Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the spirit of openness and accountability and to make sure that we are totally clear, the thrust of my amendment is, and it would be easily a friendly amendment, that be paid to a deputy minister, “the classification, salary, including applicable bonuses and performance awards”.
So, to make it admissible, would the government like to make a friendly amendment to mine, to take out the DM 1 reference in the bill and to replace it with, to be paid to a deputy minister, “the classification, salary, including applicable bonuses and performance awards”?
Would the government be open to making sure that it captures the full envelope of one's salary? In the government's amendment, it talks about “total annual monetary income”. I don't know if it includes that. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know the answer to that.