In good faith, I have another question to Mr. Fillmore.
My experience with Pacific Economic Development and previous to that with Western Economic Diversification is that those ministers don't generally have much say over economic development or policy. They generally hand out grants to various businesses and organizations in their respective provinces. Including this clause in this piece of legislation would effectively enlarge the responsibility of the minister of economic development.
I'm not necessarily opposed to it. I just want to know whether the government side thought that implication through.