You mentioned that the problem with some of the arbitration is that it's done in secret. It's parallel to the problem of allowing us to opt into the different provisions the government has chosen not to opt into at this point. Equally, with orders in council or cabinet-level decision-making, there are no extensive minutes. The debates are not published. There's simply an order in council, an enumerated number that's published along with the year that says in one line what the decision is about. It doesn't provide a debate.
I'm asking, because it's something, Mr. Marley, that you brought up with some of the other provisions related to permanent establishments—articles 10, 12, and 13—that right now Canada is reserving its position on. In the future, though, by cabinet decision, we could be opted into it. We could withdraw our opposition to it. Then we could go into it without having a parliamentary debate and broader discussion on it.
Is that the right way to go? Should we, then, amend this bill and provide for that parliamentary review of certain optional sections of this international tax treaty—the “tax treaty of tax treaties”, as I called it in debate—or should we just leave it as it is at the cabinet level?