Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is a golden opportunity for the Liberals. A little earlier, I said that they had a unique opportunity. This time, the Liberals have an incredible opportunity to add this to their discussion points: they will be able to say that they supported an opposition amendment to the budget bill C-44.
Actually, this amendment is not controversial at all. As you can see, in terms of clause 442 of the bill under our consideration, I propose that we add section 24 to the new Invest in Canada Act. The purpose of the amendment is to require that the Invest in Canada agency submit an annual report to the Minister of Finance or the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. The minister will be designated by the government. The minister will receive Invest in Canada's annual report and submit it to Parliament.
My amendment is as simple as that. It seeks to add the obligation of reporting to the minister every year on the agency's activities, as is the case for many institutions that report to Parliament every year through their minister. So it makes sense for this organization to prepare an annual report that will be tabled in the House and that will report on what it did the previous year. The report will then be available to parliamentarians and the public, who will be able to become familiar with it and study it. It is as simple as that.
So I don't see why my Liberal colleagues on the committee could reject the idea that Invest in Canada should do as many other federal agencies and table a report in Parliament every year to describe its activities from the previous years. That makes perfect sense. It's just an obligation similar to that of many other agencies. So I don't see why an amendment like that would be rejected.