Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing before the committee again.
I would like to seek unanimous consent to reopen clauses 41 and 53. I will start with clause 41.
This is in relation to NDP-25. As it was carried at committee, the amendment modified clause 40 to require that a complaint incident include reasons for the withdrawal of a complaint to the PCRC and RCMP commissioner. As passed, it creates an imbalance in the complaint process, as this requirement was not added for the complaints related to the CBSA under subclause 41(1). We therefore ask for unanimous consent for the committee to revisit clause 41 to narrow the requirement carried out under clause 40 so as to ensure that complaints related to the RCMP and the CBSA are treated in the exact same way.
This can be very easily achieved by applying the language under NDP-25 to subclause 41(1), which would read as follows. We would basically withdraw subsection 33(2) from subclause 41(1) and it would basically read: “A complainant may withdraw a complaint made under section 33(2) at any time by sending a written notice and the reasons for the withdrawal to the Commission or the President.” That's being circulated right now.