On that, with the briefing and given the nature of debates, I know that we had legal counsel present and I'm wondering if, for the good and welfare of this committee, any definitions of terms or interpretation of terms as they have been defined within the legislation or contemplated could also be added in the briefing notes.
I say that because, as was referenced earlier, we want to make sure we're debating from the same set of terms and definitions and understanding. I would say that in my initial glance at the legislation, I found some significant cases of ambiguity. Where legislation contains ambiguity, it is often taken, at least to my understanding, as allowing for a liberal—a very small “l” liberal—interpretation. A “wide application” would, I think, be a more appropriate, non-partisan term, but I thank my honourable colleague for that.
In addition to any briefing notes, if any types of definitions of terms could be added to help give us an overarching common space for debate, that would be helpful as well.
Thank you.