Mr. Chair, to follow what my colleague mentioned, we're really trying to make proposals that are actually valid to strengthen the legislation that is before us today. This amendment actually does strengthen the proposed legislation, Bill C-43 by including criteria which the minister himself spoke about. As my colleague, Jinny, mentioned, when the minister came to this committee, he introduced those suggested guidelines and even hinted to us that, as the committee, maybe we should look at putting it into the legislation.
We're taking his lead on this really when he suggested that maybe the committee would want to put it in the legislation. Rather than leaving it to the arbitrary discretion of the minister and broad-based public policy considerations that are still not really defined, I think it makes sense to put these into the legislation itself. It allows it to be more clear and transparent, and it moves us away from a precarious path of giving the minister more arbitrary power. Once again, it's one minister with an extremely high amount of arbitrary power. I do hope that our colleagues in the Conservative Party would support this amendment. It is a very reasonable amendment that looks to make this legislation work. It would strengthen this piece of legislation which is what we're all working towards.