Mr. Chair, I had more hope for my next two amendments, but I understand your intention.
Nonetheless, I am going to talk about the intent behind these amendments. They are about creating a safeguard. We know that the government can put an unrestricted firearm in the category of restricted firearms, for example. We wanted it to be a bit more difficult to do the opposite, that is, to put a restricted firearm in the unrestricted firearms category. So the purpose of this amendment is to create a kind of additional safeguard by ensuring that this decision must be made by the House.
However, from what I understand, when a regulation is made by the Minister, for example, we, the members of the committee, receive the information relating to it and we can ask the Minister to come to testify on the subject. That is a somewhat interesting option, similar to the one the committee might choose if it wanted to study the report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, the NSICOP, for example.
This is somewhat how I see this amendment, although it does not necessarily give us any power. The intent is to create a safeguard relating to declassifying restricted firearms. However, I will let you do what you have to do, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.