Pat Martin at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I take your point, and I was just talking about this with the clerk. He was pointing out to me that Mr. Angus's motion makes reference to Standing Order 108(3)(h)(vi), which speaks specifically to our mandate studying government initiatives. That's the language used here. Standing Order 108(3)(h)(vi) is in fact: the proposing, promoting, monitoring and assessing of initiatives which relate to access to information and privacy across all sectors of Canadian society and to ethical standards relating to public office holders;

So I think subparagraph (vi) of the standing order that is the mandate of this committee speaks directly to or uses the same language as Mr. Angus's motion, actually, so therefore it's entirely in order.