Thank you very much for that answer. So that would be something for a court to decide if ever there were a conflict.
Bill S-2 grants quite broad authority to use incorporation by reference. The guide to making federal acts and regulations indicates that everything to do with regulations really must be considered by the parliamentary committee of which my colleague was a joint chair, in 2011, I believe. They examine all cases of incorporation by reference in real depth. There is a mechanism for oversight, accountability and transparency. But Bill S-2 grants quite broad authority to use incorporation by reference, either ambulatory, dynamic, or static, as you mentioned. How can we be sure that the same oversight mechanism is applied to the regulations and to the incorporation by reference at the same time?
This is a huge project. It does not just apply to a department, but to all agencies and all authorities with the power to do this. How are we going to make sure that, at the Standing Joint Committee on Scrutiny of Regulations, we determine which mechanism will be used? Will it be the same? How are we going to make sure that both are at the same level of oversight and transparency?