To talk to you about the CBA brief, frankly I found it very helpful in terms of guidance. The Chamber of Commerce also had some very helpful comments about both the Competition Act and the amendments.
With respect to the bill, my specific direction to the Private Members' Business Office in drafting this was not to impede any law enforcement agencies in any appropriate measures that they may take in their duties. With respect to private investigators, it is a vested interest. Obviously it's their employment; it's what they do. So they're concerned about it from that point of view.
Frankly, I'm unsure as to whether their arguments are valid or not. I've read through the information they sent to me, and perhaps it will be clarified further in committee. But the brief from the Canadian Bar Association, for instance, was very specific about what it found objectionable in the bill and what recourse it wanted changed.
In terms of the private investigators, it seems that some of their changes would almost gut the bill entirely in terms of impersonation or false impersonation. So I am a little concerned about adopting their brief entirely, but I look forward to their being more specific in what they would actually change in the legislation.
They didn't talk much about the Competition Act; it was more about the Criminal Code. But I look forward to their bringing forward specific amendments to the first three clauses of the bill.