It is legislation in order to enforce an act that already exists. So how much telescoping — I do not know how else to put this — will have to be done? It is indeed the matter of the limits over the executive power of the government that is at play in Bill C-50. The minister, among other things, met with the Standing Committee on Finance to say that there truly are control measures.
She mentioned the three Cs: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the consultations that the government promised to hold, and Cabinet. The Cabinet is in fact the government itself, the executive power itself, and it is really the team that is the closest to the decision makers. This is not really a control mechanism. As for the consultations, this will most closely involve the private sector, with perhaps a few other departments, but it is still the executive branch of government, and workers' organizations have also been included; that was a late addition. In any event, this to our minds is vastly insufficient as far as control measures go. There should be other Cs as well, such as your Chamber, through its Committee, as well as the immigrant communities, which they too have an interest in this issue. Why not consult the communities and the community organizations? This commitment was made by the federal government in 2002, under the Voluntary Sector Initiative. There is an agreement between the federal government and the community sector to develop policies with input from the community sector.