Mr. Chair, the government does not support this amendment.
The impact of this amendment would be that a regulation-making authority could not rely on this legislation to incorporate incidental documents such as documents that provide technical precision on the regulatory rules, for example, test methods. The proposed authority in Bill S-2 already limits the incorporation of documents generated by a regulation-maker to a static or fixed incorporation by reference, which already removes any subdelegation of authority. This amendment would mean that many documents that are not amenable to regulations would have to be converted into regulatory language. The amendment would also foreclose the possibility that a regulation-maker could translate unilingual documents and then incorporate by reference a bilingual standard, for example. This would be counterproductive in our view to encouraging regulation-making authorities to go above and beyond minimum language rights obligations.
For those reasons, Mr. Chair, we'll not be supporting this amendment.