Government Operations committee  What I will say, though, is that the severity of the offence will be one of the factors taken into consideration by the registrar. Bill, can you...?

Government Operations committee  Sorry, I didn't understand that was the question. What I will say is that we are making a policy choice, if this new policy is adopted, to add flexibility in the registrar's determination of both the severity of the offence and several other factors that they will take into cons

Government Operations committee  No. The integrity regime was initially put in place in July of 2015.

Government Operations committee  Through this ongoing industry engagement, there was a desire for further consultation before any changes were made to the integrity regime. Then we decided to have the consultation in the fall of 2017.

Government Operations committee  I don't know the list of the 300 organizations offhand that participated in the consultation, but is that available? Sorry, I don't mean to be difficult, but I can't recall offhand.

Government Operations committee  If I might add, it wouldn't surprise me if SNC was on that list of 300, but I can't speak to whether it was or not. It's the second biggest engineering firm in the country. It wouldn't surprise me, but I don't know for sure.

Government Operations committee  I don't think that question can be answered in isolation. Based on the feedback we received and the international best practice, we determined that, if we were going to expand the scope of potential triggers, i.e., offences that could result in debarment, or the business ethics v

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  If I'm going to be most responsive to your question, I would say that's not my call to make. We have an independent registrar of suspension and ineligibility who makes these determinations and to whom I've delegated absolute authority. I don't have any say in that.

Government Operations committee  We will be signing off on the policy changes, but the application of that policy falls directly to the bureaucrats.

Government Operations committee  Our government doesn't have a position on the hierarchy of offences. I think it's determined on a case-by-case basis based on all of the factors applicable in a case. It would be inappropriate for me to make that call.

Government Operations committee  We will set the policy parameters.

Government Operations committee  I have a couple things. First of all, I share your sense of worry on behalf of public servants. It does continue to keep me up at night, and it continues to keep my team laser-focused on our efforts both to stabilize the system—and by that I would mean to ensure that the softwa

Government Operations committee  We sure do, and our team, both within my office and within PSPC, has done a lot of work to create what effectively is a priority list on a sliding scale of...I can't remember what the word is, Les.

Government Operations committee  We will prioritize requests based on the agreed-upon level of hardship that a person might be experiencing. I guess, Les, you could speak more to that—I apologize—but there are mechanisms.