Mr. Chair, for the sake of clarity, if you go back to the Bill C-30 provision, clause 34 starts out by saying, “A regulation made under”.
The authorities that were introduced in some of the Liberal and NDP amendments, to which we just referred, some of them refer to regulations, some of them refer to standards, some of them simply say the minister shall do such and such. My legal colleagues suggest that perhaps this should read “A regulation or instrument”, given that the precise status of some of the authorities that have been introduced in the last couple of days are unclear. It's unclear as to whether they are regulatory authorities or not.