Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to move LIB-12.1, which reads that Bill C-290 be amended by adding after line 14 on page 12 the following new clause:
42 The portion of section 68 of the Conflict of Interest Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
68 If a matter is referred to the Commissioner under subsection 12.1(1)—
which replaces 12(2)
—or 24(2.1) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, the Commissioner shall
My reasoning for this is we want to make sure that we allow the Ethics Commissioner to receive protected referrals from departments under the PSDPA, not only from PSIC. We are just making sure they can receive more.
That's it. Thank you.