Thank you, Chair. That is the correct section that I'm looking at. It's an amendment to section 29.16 of the act, adding a new subsection 3.1. The idea is that if the term expires of the person who has been participating in the consideration of a matter, or if the person resigns before the grievance committee concludes its consideration of the matter or gives a decision, the member is considered to be a member of the grievance committee for the purposes of rendering a decision.
It is a tidying up of the powers. Essentially, the problem is that if your term expires, you are no longer a member of the committee, and there are administrative law issues having to do with people who haven't participated in the consideration of the matter actually rendering the decision. If someone else were appointed the next day, that person couldn't rely on the other members to make a decision. You would have to rehear the whole matter.
The idea here is simply that of an administrative tidying up, which I think is useful. There are similar provisions in other legislation in other jurisdictions that I was certainly familiar with, and we were aware, of course, of the difficulties and issues with respect to the MPCC and thought this would be something that would be useful. It may not be used very often, but it would be a useful improvement to the powers of the members of the grievance committee.