Thank you very much.
First I want to commend Mr. Comartin. I find his amendments today to be lucid and very astute, even though I don't necessarily agree with them. I just want to make it clear that I respect his expertise in these matters.
In a way I'm sorry that this proposal in clause 9 regarding an exemption for public officers doesn't follow somewhat the same wording as in clause 7. Be that as it may, I don't think I can accept Mr. Comartin's solution, because subsection 25.1(1), in referring to the Minister of Public Safety and other ministers responsible, uses the word “personally”.
Although I stand to be corrected, because I may be outside my sphere of experience on this one, I don't know how that could be interpreted as to permit the delegation of that authority, as Mr. Comartin is suggesting might be the case. If I'm correct that personally means personally and not through a delegated act, then it would be far too restrictive to reference that section in this particular proposed amendment.