Thank you, Chair.
I'm leaning towards opposing this amendment. We came across this problem when we debated Bill C-22, creating the committee of parliamentarians, in terms of this notion of ongoing investigations. We can look at a situation like the Afghan detainees or Air India where those investigations could have been subject to this type of provision.
Interestingly, often some of our opposition amendments are rejected by those on the other side, on the grounds that these things are built into the legislation and understood in more subjective ways. This time I will be the one deploying that argument, because I believe it's understood that these review agencies are doing after-the-fact review at any rate, which was part of the rationale for rejecting my previous amendment about making orders that creep into oversight territory.
I believe that given that it already has a review function, and the fact that this kind of amendment could infringe on some of the more serious cases we've seen in Canadian history with regard to things spanning decades but where investigations were ongoing. This argument could have been made by authorities in those cases, and I don't think it's at all appropriate.
As I said, I would refer folks to the debate we had on Bill C-22 with the committee of parliamentarians where we heard evidence to that effect as well.