Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To the witnesses, thank you so much for being here and for the hard work you undertake around the world.
Obviously, all of us would agree in principle that we have to do everything we can to end conflicts and to help people who are suffering as a result of them. It's interesting for me that in the context of this hearing, one hour after another, we've had two fairly different kinds of stakeholder groups both raising substantial concerns about this legislation. In some ways they're different concerns, but I think there is a common thread I would tie between the concerns that were raised in the first hour and the concerns that we're hearing in the second hour. That's around the subjectivity this legislation gives to the minister.
You're saying it's still up to the minister's discretion around approving arms sales. We heard earlier that there is subjectivity around what the regulations will look like. In both cases we have subjectivity leading to concerns about what the minister will actually do. On that basis, concerns are coming from different elements of civil society.
I'd be curious to hear your comments on that. Do you agree that maybe the reason we hear concerns from different groups in civil society is that these decisions will be made in regulation as opposed to actually being laid out in the legislation?