No, your observation is correct. It applies to specified activity reviews, not to complaints.
It's really a question of the degree of latitude that the committee prefers the chair have at her disposal. When the bill was introduced, the intent was to preserve the primacy of the commission's complaints mandate and to prevent its ability to handle complaints from the public from being eroded or degraded by the resources required for a specified activity review. That provision exists, as you've said, in the current act now for the RCMP. That was carried over. The reason is that only the PCRC has a mandate to review and investigate complaints from the public, but there are other bodies available to the Governor in Council to conduct systemic activity review-like undertakings.
In the meantime, the committee has heard recommendations from other organizations that this is no longer desirable. The chair of the commission has recommended that this restriction be removed and to allow her to exercise her own judgment and report to this place about how she manages the commission's workload and its priorities.
We would note that NSIRA, around which much of this machinery has been blueprinted, does not have that provision, so the degree of latitude that the chair should enjoy in that space is really, I think, a question for the committee.
My colleagues from the commission may have more to say, given the chairperson's submission on that point.