Mr. Chair, the proposed amendment contemplates a scenario where there is a conflict between two different orders in council: one making an organization subject to PIPEDA, and another exempting an organization from the act because it is subject to a provincial privacy law.
This addition is unnecessary and contrary to the presumptions of statutory interpretation. The government is presumed to know and to respect the entire body of law and not make different orders that are contradictory to each other. In the unlikely event that a conflict does arise between different orders, the rules of statutory interpretation would apply to resolve the matter.
For that reason, Mr. Chair, the government is not supporting this amendment.