Thank you, Chair.
It's nice to be here again. I'm David Usher from Global Affairs Canada.
The implications of this deletion—effectively it's deleting clause 31 from Bill C-13—would be to deny Environment and Climate Change Canada the statutory authority necessary to make regulations required to exempt cleaning products or water conditioners in transit through Canada from the application of technical regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. As a result, to answer your question, if clause 31 were deleted, Canada would not have the—