Mr. Chairman, I realize that members around the table all want to be helpful and trusting. I take Mr. Bevington's reflections on the confidence that we might derive from regulations to be a very positive effort in that regard. However, regulations are only authorized and devolved from legislation that expresses a particular intent. So a regulation can't emerge—poof—out of the air to address a particular issue, even if it was raised in committee, unless the legislation allows for the development of such regulation.
While I welcome Mr. Bevington's reflection that maybe some of this might be captured--or his request to see whether this might be captured--by regulation, I don't think that we, as members of a committee, need to vest our trust in potential regulation if the legislation doesn't directly lead us in that vein.
So I hold to this particular amendment.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
(Clause 9 agreed to)