Murray Rankin at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I assume it will suffer the same cruel fate, Mr. Chair, that the others have felt.

This is simply an effort to use the common law definition of trade secrets and take out paragraph 18(a), which has a lot of other reasons to withhold information that we think are unnecessary in light of the common law understanding of what a trade secret is. In other words, this is another way and an effort to provide more information to narrow the category of what can be withheld.