Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There is currently a section in the PSDPA whereby if the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner receives a disclosure that should be dealt with or that is a topic that is covered by the Conflict of Interest Act, he refers those disclosures to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, and they're dealt with under that act. Because the disclosure was originally made to the PSIC, though, you receive the protections of the PSDPA.
This amendment would do the same thing for disclosures internal to departments, so that if the subject matter should be dealt with under the Conflict of Interest Act, it would be dealt with by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, but because the disclosure was already made under the PSDPA, they would be protected by the protections of the PSDPA. It would have the added benefit, related to something I said on Monday, that you wouldn't be asking a public servant to investigate, potentially, a minister or exempt staff. It would be done by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, who already works in that realm.