My understanding is that the intent of amendments NDP‑17, NDP‑18 and BQ‑1 is to also allow other organizations to request a review of specific activities. If I've understood what you just said, they can already do so, but it's not stated in the act. These groups therefore asked that it be mentioned.
I don't know whether there is a way of adding this information so as to include not only the groups that Mr. Julian was talking about, but also the non-governmental organizations mentioned in amendment BQ‑1. If we were to just use the term “third party”, would that amount to the same thing? These groups can already ask for a review of specific activities, but doing this would actually put it into the act.
In other words, if we drop amendments NDP‑17 et NDP‑18, keep amendment BQ‑1, and replace “non-governmental organization” with “third party”, will that amount to the same outcome?