Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are also submissions that were suggested to us by the special advocates. They wrote:
Under the amendments to the Immigration Refugee Protection Act proposed in Bill C-51 the government will be allowed to decide what information is “relevant to the case made by the Minister” and give only that to the special advocates.
The special advocates have no objection to the criteria of relevance, but they object strongly to the government deciding what is relevant. The special advocates have proposed that clause 59 of the bill be amended so that paragraph 85.4(1)(b) will read that the special advocates “shall receive all information and other evidence that relates to the named person”.
Taking their suggestions, I've made a two-pointed amendment to those sections. One is that they should at least have all information relative to the information's origin and reliability without disclosing, and also the proposal they made that the minister can't decide what is relevant and only release that. The minister should release anything that is related to the named person.
Thank you.