In the amendment, the minister may appoint a commission. That is up to the minister's discretion. What's to determine whether funding will be required?
I come from a municipality where, once again, there is no joint type of management. It's different from Sarnia, or Sault Ste. Marie, or Fort Erie and Buffalo. There is no type of governance model whatsoever, and I know people would gladly volunteer to participate in a body that would at least have some involvement with the planning and coordination of border facilities.
This is the problem we have in my jurisdiction. It's chaos. There's absolutely no coordination whatsoever. To a significant degree, it has empowerments and it has the interests of everybody working together. I suggest that you would find individuals willing to sit on such an authority through appointment without remuneration.
My previous submissions had more details of what that might be. But it turns out that they were suggestions that it would be more for regulations, in terms of what that body would be, so I dropped the specifics, to be determined by regulations. Once again, “may” does not impose this on all jurisdictions and regions. What it does is provide for those who have a complete void of this to have that opportunity, if the minister desires it.