Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, with regard to good faith, I think this is clear, but I'm going to repeat it just to be clear about why I was shaking my head. I think the officials have confirmed this: the good faith defence as an immunity only applies to the person who's creating the document. It does not require the police force as it stands now, or the Canadian Forces or any of those departments, to be acting in good faith in requesting the document. I suppose if we had that in there, it might be some additional thing.
With regard to the point about interfering with current practices, it's hard to say. Some of the current practices in creating false identity may in fact be illegal under existing law, and I don't think this should in any way be a guideline as to whether we should be interfering with that. What we're doing in the rest of the bill, assuming it becomes law, is creating a new legal authority to create that. It may in fact in some cases be confirming what our existing practice is, which may or may not be illegal, but I don't think that should be our consideration for this.
As far as the subamendment is concerned, I agree. Mr. Ménard is correct that we should be extending the authority to the attorneys general and the solicitors general right across the country. I probably should have put that in myself. I certainly would be supporting his subamendment. I think it's appropriate that we do that. They would then have the authority at both the provincial and territorial levels and at the federal level to be able to designate officials who would have the authority to make the request for these types of documents.
You don't need to add, as Ms. Jennings has suggested, all of the federal departments. That is not required. They can take care of that at the federal level by delegating that authority.
That's my summation, Mr. Chair. Thank you.