Mr. Chair, I have a concern with respect to requiring these agreements to be disclosed. It may hamper negotiations, and there may be a requirement on behalf of the other party to have some degree of confidentiality. I'm struggling with the notion of requiring people to do that. If in the normal course of events there's a disclosure, I think that's appropriate, but there may be some situations where this could be a problematic requirement on behalf of the federal government.
On December 7th, 2022. See this statement in context.