Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In fact, I have noticed that throughout this debate, whenever a government member tries to speak—or not whenever, but frequently when a government member tries to speak—the government member is met with an unnecessary point of order, or even with heckling, such as is occurring at this point in time.
I don't think I've ever seen heckling at this committee until it was decided by someone to try to shut down debate on this bill. Now we have heckling. We get points of order. We get motions to curtail members to a minute and a half each, or else they have to extort time from their colleagues.
In any event, I appreciate my friend's intervention to allow me to continue speaking.
To go back to the point, when we look at clause 6, it protects Canadians. When we look at clause 11, it protects Canadian residents. But everywhere else, these foreign interest groups will be permitted to come to Canada, open up an office, and pursue their agenda, regardless of what the Canadian agenda might be. This shows itself again in clause 12.
By the way, it also gives foreign agents the right to sue the government in clause 16. It gives foreign agents the right to sue private Canadian interests under clause 23, all because of the definition of “entities” and the fact that this word, which to my knowledge.... Well, I shouldn't say, because I really don't know, but I certainly have never seen that word used before in a statute.
So this new and revolutionary way of importing foreign organizations to participate in Canadian policy-making is found in clause 12. Not only that, but it creates a problem with clause 12 being in slight conflict with clause 11.
I'd like to move that we simply delete the words “and entities” from clause 12.