Chair, thank you very much. I'd like to welcome everybody to the discussion.
The first set of, I believe, four Liberal amendments deals essentially with the application of the Public Service Employment Act. This first Liberal amendment removes a reference to section 48 from the definition of the term “department”. It is a purely technical amendment. A later amendment will be proposed to remove the entire section 48, therefore making the reference here unnecessary.
Section 48 provides the employees of the review agency with the right to move to and from other departments. The next set of Liberal amendments, as I mentioned, will cover that as well. It deals with employee mobility. The change that is being made here is purely to resolve incompatibilities between section 48 and the Public Service Employment Act, which governs most other government departments.