Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment, to me, is the epitome of folks who have never, in fact, worked on the ground in humanitarian or international development contexts. This is putting the onus, as I said, very much on the organization to ask the public safety minister for guidance. We're expecting there to be some policy things made clear within this legislation. Any time that is the case, it means that this can be weaponized.
All of a sudden, if we get a different government or if we get a different minister, the ability for the minister to weaponize against organizations is there. We have no understanding from this legislation of who the organization would ask or what the timelines for that would be. Things do not move quickly when you have one ministry, let alone when you have three. What happens if Global Affairs Canada and Public Safety disagree? What if the determination changes? Do we have to ask every single day in certain contexts?
This is just adding another layer of bureaucracy to what is already a ridiculous process for organizations to have to go through. This is not a solution. This is not what the sector asked for. This is very clearly legislators, who have no idea what humanitarian and international development looks like on the ground, trying to make a decision for those organizations.
It's a mistake, and we cannot support this.