Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Commissioner, thank you for being here with your colleagues today and for your continuing work in this capacity.
First of all, for all of us in the room and anyone watching, my colleague Mr. Barrett referred to the report of the committee. It was a majority report. On this side of the table, we issued quite a strong dissenting opinion.
One of the areas that I want to explore with you has to do with how the majority report recommended removing some of the purposes of the act, including paragraph 3(d), “encourage experienced and competent persons to seek and accept public office”, and paragraph 3(e), “facilitate interchange between the private and public sector.”
Commissioner, do you agree that those remain important purposes of the act?