I have information from Mr. Godfrey. My colleague, Blaine Calkins, may not be a lawyer, but he was an inspector, and he knows what kind of tools he needs to do his job properly. Neither Blaine nor I need a lawyer to see that there are things that just don't work with what is being proposed here.
I understand that you may feel uncomfortable about this proposal, because I am also rather embarrassed about it. But what can we do? This happens to be a place where there are some big holes, just like there are elsewhere in Bill C-288. You are trying to turn this into something political so that you can justify your inaction over the past several years. The fact is we're at +35 per cent now, when we should be at -6 per cent.
So, the answer is yes, but there is nothing right about this clause. I will rely on the experience of Inspector Blaine. He knows what he needs to enforce a regulation, and it isn't there.