Thank you, Mr. Dhaliwal, for that question. Again, it's a pleasure to work with you, as well, although our time way back in international trade ages both of us, probably me more than you.
The status quo creates uncertainty. It creates legal risk for Canadian humanitarian organizations working on the ground in Afghanistan, because it would rely on the discretion of both police investigators and prosecutors to not prosecute them under the fairly clear terms of the Criminal Code of Canada.
While one would hope, I suppose, in an ideal world, that discretion would be exercised in a way that benefits Canadian humanitarian organizations, one can't guarantee it. The organizations were looking for certainty. They want to be able to say to their workers, the people who are collaborating with them and the people who are working for them on the ground that they will be protected from being prosecuted under the Canadian anti-terrorist financing regime.
What this law does is give certainty. How? It does that by allowing an organization to apply to the Minister of Public Safety for an exemption from the provisions of the Criminal Code. That happens, and hopefully, it will be done. Hopefully, the law will be passed quickly. Hopefully, the organizations are already preparing their applications to the Minister of Public Safety, and then immediately they'll be able to get that approval, an exemption, and they'll be able to do the good work that they do on the ground without fear of prosecution in Canada.