I'll give you an example. This justice committee had to review another bill, a private member's bill, which was to remove
section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act which prohibited hate speech. On the government side, they said that taking it out would be great because the matter was already dealt with in the Criminal Code. But the hate speech under the Canadian Human Rights Act also dealt with discrimination on the grounds of sex. And if you look at the offences described in sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code, you see that they no longer refer to sex.
When something is not written down, it becomes open to interpretation. I cannot believe that having an expression written down on paper does not help a tribunal, its officers or commissioners to understand things clearly.