Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I really am troubled by what you people are doing here. If you read the amendment, it says:
No information collected for the purpose of determining whether to grant a transportation security clearance may be shared with any foreign government.
“Collected”; that doesn't mean that the process of collection can only happen within the boundaries of Canada. It means that once you have collected it—“collected” means the information that has been put together—it is not to be shared. That's pretty clear in this amendment, so you're throwing up a bit of a straw dog here. You still would be able to go to another country and ask about an applicant with this amendment, because it is not about collecting information; it is about the information collected. That's pretty clear. When you put something into a law that says “information collected” you're not saying “for the purpose of collecting information”. There are two different things here. You've put forward an argument to go against this amendment that is really quite specious.