Thanks, Madam Chair. I would like to have a quick chance to explain what this is all about. This part of the bill sets the mandated terms of employment, so to speak, for the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Commissioner moving forward. I want to start by saying that this bill is not going to change the current terms of employment for any of our statutory officers. That is always the principle. You don't want to change someone's terms of employment while they are in a job without their consent and agreement and so on, so that is not what this is about. This is about moving forward once appointments are completed, when we fill those positions again.

We did receive, as MLAs, some communications from the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner about the term of office. There is sort of a national, I'm not going to use the word "standard," but an approach where the people in those positions in most of the other provinces and territories serve for at least five years, so there was a request from the Commissioner to consider changing the term as set out in the bill from four to five years. I know this is a bit strange, but I am going to move that we delete the part of the bill that would change the term, so that this Commissioner would remain in office for five years. Thanks, Madam Chair.