Thank you for the question.
During the course of the past months, after this department appeared before the committee in June, following our written submission after the appearance in June and in the lead-up to our appearance today, we felt that as the department that would ultimately be responsible for implementing a large part of the provisions of the bill, we should in good faith assess very carefully what the provisions of the bill would mean in terms of implementing for our department.
In this regard, the comments that I provided in the opening statement, and the ones noted in our written submission subsequent to our last appearance, itemized in some detail our concerns with the process of transforming what are currently drafted as guidelines into what would appear to be regulations that would require compliance on the part of Canadian companies abroad. At the same time, we wanted to look at how we would actually implement the process of examination that would be required.
It would appear to us that this would require the creation of a unit within our department that would focus on accepting complaints that would be submitted, on assessing them, on reviewing them, on establishing a process to be followed, and on providing related legal services.
This would require certain human resources, financial resources, that we believe could potentially be very significant.