Procedure and House Affairs committee  Could I jump in?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the basic principle of the gifts provisions is that you shouldn't be benefiting, getting perks, just for being an MLA, or an MP in your case. So the gifts that are acceptable for you to receive are those that are related to your position in terms of protocol or thank you

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a little different though. If you're going to a reception in your official capacity and you're there in your role, you're doing something and it's a thank you. But as I understand it, you're saying that you get sent stuff. A member of the public, if they look at that, woul

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I guess, but those are the sort of subtleties that we think of as sort of the principle for not accepting a bunch of extra stuff out of context.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It also makes disclosure very easy. You just say “hold mail”, no other details are required.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's been that amount since 1990.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We don't differentiate between those kinds of gifts or travel or invitations and so forth, and others. They would have to meet the same acceptability test that other gifts would. In an example like that, if it was a local event and you were the local representative and it was rel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have a provision similar to other jurisdictions. Basically, you're not supposed to be accepting gifts in relation to your duties unless they're what we call—what's our phrasing?—incident protocol or social obligations. To answer the ski hill question, that would not normally

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would also just like to add with our act we also have the apparent conflict of interest, so even if someone had a few shares, that could be seen as being important to the public.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think Commissioner Dawson actually has a very good gifts bulletin as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ms. Dawson does have a good gifts.... It's in a little bit of a different format, but she does have a very good gifts form.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Are you also talking about the general disclosure, full disclosure?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under section 22 of our act, if someone absolutely refused to file a disclosure then we could recommend a penalty, but in our experience it doesn't get to that stage.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would go to the House.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it would be extreme if the member refused to file the disclosure statement within the time provided in section 16. We could come down hard if we absolutely needed to.