Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Regardless of what the minister's intentions might be, we have to go with what we have in the legislation. As I mentioned, this is relating to clawbacks. We've heard a lot from stakeholders and from people who have reached out that it's a big concern of theirs.
This is within federal programs. We know that at this point, the interaction with provincial programs would have to be negotiated. Especially since a lot of this will be done in regulations, it's really important that we put something to this effect in legislation.
We just heard from the officials that there could be interactions with other federal programs. This amendment is so we don't pass the buck down the road. We want to have a clear message right now from the start that there are no clawbacks, or the intention is for no clawbacks, and that those won't occur. Putting that in here sends out a really clear message that this is in fact what will happen.
I think we all agree that's the intention, not to push it down the road. Let's make sure we have it in the legislation.