Dan Albas hasn't been here for a while.
Amendment NDP-2 follows through on changes recommended by the Standing Joint Committee on Scrutiny of Regulations. In one of its notes, the committee makes the following statement regarding rules and foreign legislation: "For these reasons, it is submitted that the ambulatory incorporation by reference of foreign legislation should not generally be permitted." That does not pertain to static references, only ambulatory ones.
The committee pointed to the problems that ambulatory references can cause. I asked Mr. Walter about that. He said they limited Parliament's options, preventing parliamentarians from having any oversight over changes incorporated in a dynamic or ambulatory way into a Canadian law, because those changes are automatically part of the legislation without necessarily being subject to parliamentary oversight.
That was my rationale.