Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I think that also would help in guiding members who do wish to bring allegations of non-compliance because it would suggest to them that they should point their attention to the sections of this code that are in the rules of conduct, and that helps to target what the inquiry is meant to actually address. I'm not thinking of anything in particular, but we're just looking forward and trying to say how this can be improved in order to allow the members to have a fairness in the conduct of inquiries and so on.
I will move along. At subsection 27(5), which is on page 26, there is an amendment suggested to permit a preliminary report, or a preliminary review of an inquiry to be set out explicitly within the code. This is just a suggestion. It may be that the committee would want to decide, and I believe from the notes that the committee hasn't actually made a decision as to whether they would want the report to be made at all. That may be why a preliminary review would be required, so that it could just be disposed of if it's frivolous or vexatious, or what have you, and it shouldn't be made public. But it may be that the reporting and making it public, when this was initially brought forward, is to indicate that when the House, through its mandate, has said to the commissioner, okay, we are delegating to you this duty, the House would then, in return, have the right to know what has occurred.
This isn't specified here, so I don't know if that side of it has been considered...rather it's just been considered whether there should just be the dismissal and then nobody hears about it, nobody knows about it. I think that the consequence of having a report is what is meant to guide members in their decisions of whether they would raise an allegation of non-compliance.
So that's just a consideration you may want to think about.
In conclusion, it may be that a report could be suggested even at the close of a preliminary inquiry. If that is the case, then if you move to the new amended subsection 27(5.1), it may be assisting this problem of the non-confirming publicly. If there is a report at the preliminary stage, then it solves that problem somewhat.
Okay?