There's an existing case of that in legislation, the Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act, section 13 of which obliges the Department of Finance to present a report annually on the Bretton Woods institutions, and that's the report you have in front of you.
As I indicated, we're one of very few countries that actually do this. We're proud of the report. It gets better every year. Recently, we had consultations with non-governmental organizations that made further suggestions, as they have in past years, on how to improve it.
I think one of the tests, for us, is that when Ireland, the newest addition to the world of doing these sorts of reports of only a dozen countries, looked at the other reports globally, they decided this was the best one. So this is the consolidated comprehensive report we do on the Bretton Woods institutions.
Clause 10 duplicates this existing effort, with one exception, and that's the exception around confidentiality that I pointed out. Our concern and counsel's concern is that paragraph 10(b), “a summary of any representation made by Canadian representatives”, would push us beyond the envelope with the World Bank.
I guess what we'd recommend to committee members is to examine the report that we're already providing and indicate whether that's adequate to the test that parliamentarians are seeking, before we add an additional report, which is what clause 10 requires, most of which additional report would be exactly duplicative of this report.