Okay, so I will move NDP-41.2. It's an insertion at the top of the page, adding some provisions to the.... The section that I just spoke about was the duty of the CRTC to disclose when the commissioner asks for information on this necessity standard.
There is nothing in the amendments on creating this automated call and live-voice call system with the CRTC. There's nothing that states any affirmative duty on the part of the CRTC to alert the commissioner, if, for some reason, a suspicion or a pattern of some sort seems to be revealed that some employee who's involved in or charged with this division notices.
One reason this is important, to go back to an analogy between the relationship between the Chief Electoral Officer and what will be the now moved commissioner in the DPP.... Sheila Fraser appeared and said that unless you specifically provide the mechanisms for sharing, then you have to make sure that somewhere else in the law there are provisions for proactive sharing by the agency. If not, there could be this weird gap.
Now, if it turns out that there are existing rules under the CRTC where they do have some kind of duty to alert the commissioner, then I wouldn't have any problem, but I've not been able to find any such rules, and I'd much prefer, again, that it's all cleanly part of the same regime in the act.
What this says is that the CRTC shall inform every employee whose work is related to this new voter contact registry system, that “if her or she suspects an offence under any provision of this Act has been committed, he or she has a duty to inform a designated Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission official.” Through that official, obviously, the CRTC shall then, upon receiving that information, “refer the matter to the Commissioner for investigation.”
It's just a neat mechanism. That's neat in the sense of clean, not neat in the sense of cool. It may be both—