Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your cooperation and valuable testimony.
I would like to talk about clause 8 of the bill, which pertains to the Committee' s mandate. It states: “The mandate of the Committee is to review“
Paragraph b) states:
(b) any activity
and it continues:
unless the appropriate Minister determines that the review would be injurious to national security;
Other witnesses have pointed out that there is repetition in the bill. I would like your opinion on that. Is there repetition in the bill?
Let us look first at clause 14.
Paragraph 14 b) no longer refers to review but rather information, which I consider much more limited.