Thanks, Chair.
In a sense, this has a similar intention as that of the Green Party amendment, so it may not be acceptable, but I put it out as an amendment, again, to provide greater certainty to phrase other law in the proposed subsection to which she spoke. It does not include any other act. It expresses fundamental values such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Bill of Rights, the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Privacy Act, the Official Languages Act, and the Access to Information Act.
Chair, in the courts, all of these statutes have been considered quasi-constitutional in nature, except in the case of the charter, of course, which is called a constitutional law. They are part of our fundamental framework of laws in Canada. There seems to be some ambiguity in proposed section 4 about inconsistency between this act, the budget implementation act, and the provisions of any other law. It does say that the agreement prevails to the extent of the inconsistency. Does it prevail over the Privacy Act? That can't be the case. It can't be the case, so this would simply clarify that and give Canadians some comfort that we're not selling the farm and our fundamental rights by passing a law of this sort.