Thanks, Chair.
I have a motion that I'll move, and then I'll speak to it once you've ruled that it's in order.
I move:
That the committee
(a) report the following recommendations to the House at the first opportunity:
(i) that the Conflict of Interest Act, including the conflict of interest rules, disclosure mechanisms and compliance measures set out in it, be reviewed;
(ii) that the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics be designated to undertake the review;
(iii) that it be an instruction to the committee to consider, as part of its review, whether the act should be amended or expanded with a view to enhancing transparency, preventing conflicts of interest, avoiding potential or apparent conflicts of interest, regulating public office holders' ownership of assets in tax havens, limiting the availability of blind trusts as a compliance measure, extending the act's provisions to political party leaders and leadership candidates, and increasing penalties for non-compliance; and
(iv) that, at the conclusion of the review, the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House; and
(b) in the time between when these recommendations are reported to the House and the House dispenses with them, begin hearing witness testimony on the subject matter referenced in recommendations (i) and (iii), and the parties be directed to provide the names of their proposed witnesses to the clerk of the committee within two weeks of the adoption of this motion.
Mr. Chair, I've provided it to the clerk in electronic format in both official languages.