If you make it a discretionary exemption, as we're proposing, then it would be cabinet's call. It would be the Clerk of the Privy Council's call. Right now the clerk doesn't have a choice in his advice to the Prime Minister. He simply has to say, “These are excluded; they fall within the exclusion.” But if it's discretionary, the pressure is on to look at the request, look at the consequences, at what the injury might be, what the timeline might be.
On March 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.