Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The purpose of BQ‑12 is to avoid regulatory overlap. It stems from a request Electricity Canada made in its brief. As you can well imagine, some organizations already have cybersecurity programs, so adding this provision would ensure that they were exempted from the cybersecurity program requirements.
The idea is really to avoid regulatory overlap. Electricity Canada submits that infrastructure already subject to stricter standards won't be made any more secure. In its brief, Electricity Canada refers to the standards set by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which many provincial regulators have adopted, applied and reviewed.
That's the purpose of this amendment.