Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Currently each provision we're looking at reads along these lines: “the Minister shall, in consultation with the provincial ministers of the Crown”. Our amendment would change it to “provincial and territorial ministers of the Crown”.
We were actually alerted to this issue through Mr. Komarnicki's speech to the House, when he noted that “territorial” was excluded.
According to the Interpretation Act, “territorial” would be read in; it's deemed to cover territories. However, in consideration of and with respect to our territorial friends, we certainly want to make sure that they are expressly included.
There are several places within the bill where it simply says “provincial”, and we would want to insert “and territorial” at each of those places.