Again, if the committee wants to recommend that we codify in the bill something like the language I've proposed in these guidelines, I would be very interested to receive that recommendation. But you need to understand that if we do that, then it becomes a very rigid tool and it becomes highly litigious.
There will be cases undoubtedly that do not fall within this. When you look more closely at this, you may think these criteria are too narrow. They are radically more narrow than the criteria for negative discretion that exist in our peer democracies.
Essentially, our proposal to allow for negative discretion on public policy grounds at the minister's discretion is designed to replicate the analogous power that exists in the U.K., Australia, the U.S., and New Zealand, where we have seen no significant abuse of that power.