Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The amendment is to clarify that in the areas in which the Governor in Council may make regulations under proposed section 42, those regulations are not restricted to contracts involving the payment of money by Her Majesty but include the payment of money by crown corporations.
That is necessary because when you go through the different headings, the (a), (b), (c), and (d) of those types of regulations, (d) is the one with respect to the follow-the-money authority for the Auditor General, in order to ensure that this authority would also apply to crown corporations. We need it to be clear in the first part of proposed section 42 that the Governor in Council would have the authority to issue regulations that apply to contracts providing for the payment of money by not only Her Majesty but also crown corporations.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])