Public Safety committee  Not being legislative counsel, I would hesitate to necessarily equate it so.

Public Safety committee  I think it's probably used more in a parenthetical sense, much like the comma but with greater emphasis.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Lee, I'm no longer a legislative counsel, but I can say one of the current techniques used in legislative drafting is the use of what's technically called the em dash. I don't immediately have all the rules respecting its use and so on, but it is a recognized technique now.

Public Safety committee  If I can just add to what Mr. Hill said, if I understand it correctly, we don't want the concept of “other entities” to be coloured by the fact that the federal government would have to go through the provinces to support. That's my understanding of the intention here.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, sir. I'll just point out that the bill in other sections contains concepts and language that encompasses municipalities. For example, in paragraph 4(1)(f) we use the concept of “local authorities”; in paragraph 6(2)(a) we also use the concept of “local authorities”. F