At this point my advice would be that this request should be made of the minister. The minister may authorize officials to provide advice to the committee. The request for this meeting occurred fairly recently, so the discussion with both our ministers has simply been one of let's appear and share how the act is used. The ministers can decide whether they want to appear, whether they want to provide input, whether they want to make officials available. The challenge we have is decisions about legislation are made by the government. We provide advice to the government. I think we're restricted to telling you how the act works. Again, we can go so far as to say what it does and doesn't do, and then leave it to you to draw your conclusions, unless the minister directs us otherwise.
On March 8th, 2016. See this statement in context.