This is wonderful, because this is a committee doing what it should be doing. We remember when Prime Minister Trudeau said he wanted committees to be more effective, to take in reasonable concerns. He took parliamentary secretaries off committees so they could be truly independent and bring forth reasonable concerns.
Therefore, a reasonable and modest exclusion to address concerns that even government members are trying to address in their questions would solve all concerns.
Let me pose it the other way. If the government were to oppose such a specific clause being inserted into Bill C-47, would your members take that as your concerns being ignored? Further, would your members take that as a sign that their concerns are valid, because there was no exclusion in the arms trade treaty, only mention in the preamble?
Would voting down such a reasonable clause be taken as ignoring their concerns and really fuelling the uncertainty on this area?