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Information & Ethics committee And that may lead to—
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee Or a referral to—
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee And in some cases I may even determine before initiating an investigation that I have reasonable grounds. Once I determine that I do have reasonable grounds, I must send it to the RCMP.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee Lobbying....
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee As I said earlier, in looking at the definition of a public office holder, parliamentary secretaries are not designated public office holders.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee There is no requirement, no.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee There are four files that I have referred.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee We were talking about a question of process and where I am, actually, after conducting one of the administrative reviews. I felt I had reasonable grounds to refer the matter directly to the RCMP, which is what I did. I didn't wait to open an investigation. So there actually were four referrals to the RCMP.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee It's one of those questions that has come up each time over the years. There are two ways I've heard the question phrased: how much is a lobbyist being paid; and how much is the lobbyist actually spending on the lobbying activity. It's probably something that will come up again, and it's worthy of debate.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee With Parliament it was pretty specific as to the types of communications they wanted to capture in terms of it being a designated public office holder, and through the regulations it further defined the oral, and arranged, and who was initiating it. What we've found in doing the reporting is that 80% of this is overreporting.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee Well, it's done on a daily basis in terms of monitoring the media and other public information. You'll often see in articles that person X is lobbying either on a particular issue or.... So we will look at that in terms of determining whether, upon further analysis, the individual....
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee By me, yes.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd
Information & Ethics committee That's the first, in terms of additional guidance to the code.
April 20th, 2010Committee meeting
Karen Shepherd