I believe I've been misunderstood.
I'll speak slowly
There's a difference between a minister's power to make or reserve a decision. The act grants him a power. He can make decisions. He has an extraordinary power to take extraordinary measures in certain cases, but there is a framework. That's resolved.
I'm speaking as a legislator. A committee can decide whether a country is designated or not. The problem is that we're making quite a Draconian change to our way of viewing matters, even though there are appeals for everyone. From now on, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada has the authority to designate countries and to send a message about such and such country. We're politicizing the system. We're doing it with a capital P, not a small p. To ensure that doesn't become a small p, I wonder whether we, as parliamentarians, shouldn't have that ability, as Ms. Chow said earlier. It isn't because a country is designated that it will be designated all the time. On the other hand, we have to have the ability to say that we might have made a mistake and that, regardless of the government, we can always make changes to the act. Wouldn't it be better to have a bill containing a clause that allows a review?