Part 13 strengthens the mandate of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada for greater protection of consumers. In Quebec, we have a government agency called the Office de la protection du consommateur that has been in existence since 1971 and whose mandate is to educate the public on all aspects of consumer protection and to receive and investigate complaints.
I wonder if in your part 13 the jurisdictional aspect has been properly analyzed. Are we not overstepping on provincial jurisdiction by adding consumer protection to the mandate of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada? Has this been looked at from the perspective of power sharing? Could this cause disputes between levels of government?