Well, I understand that you have a difficult job, and I'm not going to make it more difficult than that. What I will say, though, is that I am concerned about, as MP MacDonald said, the fairness and allocation of this.
I would like to move to division 12, entitled “Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act”. I've noticed that there were a number of loopholes in the budget, and in the budget implementation act there seems to be a whole host of them.
First, I'd like to first confirm the enabling provision with regard to the coming into force:
237(1) Section 235 comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.
That ultimately means that Parliament can approve this, and give royal assent, but the government can choose to bring it into force or not, at its total discretion. Is that correct?