Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the hon. member and suggest she refer to the last example of incorporation by reference that we provided.
It clearly illustrates the application of subsection 18.1(3) that you referred to. In this type of context a number, an index or a rate could be applied. We refer here to the consumer price index. These numbers and these rates, which are very easily accessible, are published by Statistics Canada, so by the government. Needless to say, they are published in both official languages
In practice, if this number, rate or coefficient was incorporated by reference in a regulatory provision, as is the case here, once the regulation is published in Part 2, the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations would study the document incorporated by reference, in the same way that it would review other provisions of the regulation.
In practice that is how it would work.