As my colleague mentioned, one of the main drivers behind the tabling of this legislation was to settle the dispute between the government and the Standing Joint Committee on the Scrutiny of Regulations, because we did not agree as to when incorporation by reference could be used or could not be used on an ambulatory basis.
One of the benefits or implications of this bill is that it will set a legal baseline. It will confirm the legal authority to do what the government had relied on the common law to support and the SJC had insisted be expressly authorized by each individual act of Parliament. So the benefit of enacting Bill S-2 is that there will be a solid expressed legal basis for the use of the technique.