And I'm following the agreement by the committee, and that's why I'm here instead of submitting my amendments at report stage when I would have more adequate time to speak than the one minute per amendment I have here. But thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't want to cause any trouble. I'm very grateful for all the lovely people around this particular table. I have a problem with the process, not the people.
This particular amendment, Mr. Chair, seeks to do the same thing by different means. We have under proposed section 4 at page 73 a provision that is overly broad and could be interpreted to mean that any inconsistency between this agreement and the provisions of any other law, that the FATCA agreement would supersede any other law. That could include the Privacy Act of Canada. It could include the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We don't know what other laws can be superseded by FATCA.
In an effort to ensure we are sufficiently narrow, I think to meet the intent of the section, my amendment removes “or any other law” in clause 99. To just omit the words “or any other law” narrows it to inconsistencies that relate to the articles of the convention and the Canada-United States Tax Convention Act from provisions of this act.
It's a clarifying amendment. I think it should be very helpful since, as we know, the current administration says the purpose of this act is not to overturn Canadian law.