Thank you, Chair, for that question.
On the proposed amendment in relation to paragraph (d), “the political or governmental processes of a federal or provincial Crown corporation”, the intent and interpretation is that the current definitions in Bill C-70 include Crown corporations, so our interpretation—which would be subject to the commissioner's interpretation, obviously—is that those are already included in the definition.
In terms of “the political or governmental processes of a university or government research centre”, I would say that the proposed amendment goes beyond what we intended in terms of the transparency registry. It was intended to increase transparency in activities related to governmental and political processes, whether processes of the federal, provincial-territorial or indigenous governments, but this would go far beyond that.
I would say that in terms of research in universities, again, it would significantly expand the scope. I would say that there are already a number of initiatives and programs in place, such as the safeguarding science initiative, the outreach program at the service and new national security guidelines for research partnerships that are aimed at tackling the problem of research security.
The transparency proposals here as they relate to the government would be very difficult to apply in the context of a university, because they would target the governmental and political process of the university, which is very different from the governmental or political process of a government.