I think the concern around the amendment is that it would propose that the appointees of the commission named by the Governor in Council include four specific communities. The entire commission is quite small. It would consist of only five Governor in Council appointees: the chair and four members. If all four members of the commission are allocated in the statute to a specific community, the Governor in Council may over time have less leeway in appointing representatives of other communities who, through time and circumstance, may emerge as warranting representation on the commission.
In that regard, as the parliamentary secretary pointed out and as the chair of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission has submitted to this committee, an amendment along the lines of BQ-0.1, closer to what exists now in Bill C-40—which is before another committee at the moment—may be desirable from that perspective.