I have a question for the officials on this, but I also want to say that my colleague's angst, which is recognizable through this amendment, might be exacerbated perhaps by the knowledge that the existing wording of the section refers to other entities, which would include transportation authorities, hospitals, tourist venues and sites, hydroelectric-generating authorities, and police forces, clearly already under the jurisdiction of the provinces. The wording of the section is pretty soft wording. It involves coordination in cooperation with.
I want to ask officials to advise us whether or not there were, and if there are, in existence some examples they can give us of direct relationships between this particular ministry and other entities, municipal or otherwise, including municipal police forces, power-generating authorities, transportation authorities, and any funding mechanism that would move federal money directly to any of these bodies in the existing policy.