Mr. Bigras says that it is his intention with this amendment to remove areas of concurrent jurisdiction from the ambit of this act. That is what I surmised at the outset. You have ruled that's not going to be the effect of this amendment, even though it is what is intended.
I want to say, however, to Mr. Bigras that the removal of this section will not affect the preamble of this definition. I want to remind him that the preamble of this definition says that “federal work or undertaking” means any work or authority that is in the legislative authority of Parliament. Simply removing paragraph (i) will not restrict that preamble so as to exclude concurrent jurisdiction.
Mr. Chair, you've persuaded me in the course of your remarks; however, it would seem to negative the purpose that Mr. Bigras has in proposing this amendment. Of course, in this committee that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I suggest this is an unnecessary amendment and it won't affect that particular issue.
Thank you.