All NDP-22 does is amend clause 48 by adding into the earlier part the words, “The tribunal shall submit to the minister a report on its”.
As we read it, what it's trying to do is make mandatory the disclosure of all the accounts and spending of the tribunal. The need for this is just to press the issue, if you will, of the accountability of the tribunal in terms of its spending and also of the activities of the tribunal writ large. It removes any possibility of this information just simply not getting out because a minister chooses not to divulge it, because when this clause goes in, it's not up to ministerial discretion as to whether that's made public. It's simply a transparency amendment to the clause.