Mr. Chair, I would move that Bill C-31 in clause 10 be amended by replacing line 31 on page 4 with the following:
(b) has reasonable grounds to believe that, in
To speak to it very briefly, Mr. Chairperson, what we're trying to do is replace the word “suspect” with “believe”. The reason for that is that there is a much lower standard. It was pointed out by one of our presenters that we are lowering the standard by using the word “suspect”, which causes concern. To replace that word with “believe” is the purpose of the amendment.
(Amendment negatived)