Thank you.
I was going to suggest something like what I heard Mr. Malo say, that instead of the word “approval” it be either “consideration and comment”, or the word “scrutiny”. I listened with interest to Mr. Scott's suggestion that this committee has in fact been charged by the House with this responsibility.
I don't think that I heard Mr. Fast's comments about the power or the responsibilities of the minister, and I don't see there being an intent here to take that away. I would be comfortable with changing either the word “approval” to “consideration and comment” or the word “scrutiny”, whichever was deemed to be the most appropriate, and either leaving it as “the House” or to “this committee” or “before this standing committee of the House”, because this committee reports to the House in its public meetings.
So it may be that this is the most appropriate place to take that because this is where actual debate would occur, as opposed to in the House, where at any given time the chances of a dialogue and debate and therefore of arriving at a conclusion.... It's more a place where statements are made as opposed to true debate taking place.