Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I too have some comments I just want to make on this, and I don't really want to get into what happened. But I do think that, you know, we did -- the last Assembly made changes to the code of conduct. We made changes to the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act. We renamed the statutory officer. It used to be called the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, now they're called an Integrity Commissioner, changed the process a bit. And what I can say is that consensus government worked. It was painful but it did work, and it did cost some money but that is the price of democracy in some ways. But I agree with a lot of what my colleague said in terms of trying to learn some lessons from what happened. And I too agree that I think it's difficult to cap legal costs, particularly around the public inquiry. You want to make to sure it's a fair process. If we don't have a fair process that in itself can be challenged. But I do think that some of the policies might need to be clarified.
I did hear the Speaker say that the Board of Management is going to review policies, and I certainly appreciate the hard work on the Board of Management in looking at all of this. It was a very difficult situation and stellar work; I want to thank them all for the work that they did on this and will continue to do on this.
I guess I do agree too, though, that we may want to consider a look at how other jurisdictions deal with disputes and whether there's alternative measures or mediation or, you know, whether it's even like of council of elders that might provide advice or be available for advice as an alternative form of dispute resolution.
So I think I heard the Speaker say that the Board of Management is looking at policies. But I'm hoping that the Board of Management would also look at the legislation itself because that's where the process is set out, you know, of the sole adjudicator -- the Integrity Commissioner, sorry, hearing a complaint first and then if there's merit it can go off to a sole adjudicator, and I'm not a lawyer but I think I got that right. But that's set out in the legislation. And if we do want to really provide for alternative dispute resolution, I think that may require some legislative change.
So I guess I would like to ask the Speaker, or our witnesses, whether the scope of the work that they're doing is going to look at potential for legislative change as well. Thanks, Madam Chair.