Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. We certainly welcome the removal of the word “lawful” as a qualifier on things that would be covered in this bill.
I have a question for the officials, perhaps from Justice Canada. There are two things in the government amendment. It's unfortunate that they have been combined, but there are two different things in this amendment. One is the removal of the word “lawful”, and the other deals with the sharing of information, but both of those are what are called “for greater certainty” clauses.
I'm looking for assistance from one of the officials to explain to us the legal impact of a “for greater certainty clause”, because it seems to me that it's simply a modifier or a general instruction about the interpretation of a clause, but that the main clause stands.
The reason I raise this question is that we've talked about that definition by which information will be shared as being too broad, and that it becomes, in Bill C-51, the basis of the law.
I'd like to know how much the “for greater certainty” restricts that general clause, and since that's used in both of these, could someone give us some assistance on that?