Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you.
Amendments LIB-9 and LIB-10 go together, and both are connected back to LIB-1. These are technical provisions that deal with the mobility rights of public servants.
What LIB-9 aims to do is to remove provisions that exempt the review agency secretariat from most of the Public Service Employment Act, so that under the amendment the entire PSEA would apply to the review agency secretariat, not just part 7. In the subsequent amendments, the removal of proposed section 48 of the NSIRA act, which governed these mobility provisions, is being proposed so that subsequent to LIB-9 and LIB-10, the entire PSEA would apply to civil servants under the review agency secretariat.
Once again, these are technical amendments. They would leave the substantive rights of review agency secretariat employees effectively unchanged.