Madam Chair, I will say, perhaps for the benefit of Mr. MacGregor, who came in partway through today's meeting, that the purposes of the last few amendments I hope to achieve with this amendment.
I explained to Mr. Cullen that I shared some of his reservations about the exercise of an exemption power without some opportunity for the public to scrutinize the use of that power. I think it's an important suggestion. Where we differed was only on the mechanism to achieve that. I had some reservations around the Statutory Instruments Act only because of the timeline with which it could preclude the use of that power in an urgent situation.
The proposed amendment would add a third subsection that would require the minister to make accessible to the public, on the Internet or by other means, the use of the public interest exemption so that they're not operating in secrecy. That is really the intent of this proposed amendment.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
(Clause 6 as amended agreed to)