Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is a reasonable amendment here I think, without question. This amendment requires the new agency to suspend a complaints investigation if it determines that the investigation would interfere with “an ongoing criminal investigation or proceeding”. This sort of complaint could arise if the review agency were investigating a complaint against the RCMP. The RCMP's own independent review body, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP, is currently required to suspend its investigations for the exact same reason.
The goal here is to ensure that the review agency's activities don't conflict with the work of the police. Suspended complaints investigations would be resumed once the conflict was resolved.