I want to thank the legislative lawyers for helping me with this one. My intention was to go in the direction that Ms. May went, and to make it mandatory for the government to issue the regulations clarifying non-use. It's a problem throughout this bill where a lot of the detail is left to regulation, which the government has a practice of simply stalling on promulgating. As I understand it, there is a problem in the courts where the courts are reluctant...in the case of the cabinet or the Governor in Council having the power to make the regulation as opposed to a minister.
What this provision does in the matter of non-use value, which is a significant matter that the government, in its wisdom, has chosen to add to the spill liability law, is clarifying exactly what they mean by non-use value. This simply adds the power to make regulations to clarify non-use value and provides for accountability. As a package, it is holding the government accountable so that if the cabinet decides it wants to delay clarifying this matter, it will have to account for that to Parliament.
This is about transparency.