Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I support this clause very strongly, because I do believe that, as Ms. Davies says, it does bring in an element of accountability. But it also allows us to examine the evidence as to where and if the minister had a balanced approach, if she did in fact give any exemptions, and what the results and outcome are two years later with regard to crime, with regard to open drug scenes, with regard to overdose deaths in that area where the exemptions were made, and to compare all of that to results in areas where exemptions were not made.
I think it gives us an opportunity to set some indicators and to look at how we evaluate them, so we will make a decision on whether the government, by not giving exemptions, had in fact made the wrong decision or the right decision. It will also allow us to hold this up against any of the charter compliance that the Supreme Court so very clearly put in place.
So I do support this. I think it's really an important clause.