Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment would require the environment and climate change regulations in the amendment we just passed to be implemented within 36 months of the letters patent; otherwise, the minister would be required to create a report to explain the reason for the delay and to do so within 12 months. I could read out the exact wording, with your indulgence:
(1.2) If no regulations are made for the purposes of each of paragraphs (1.1)(a) to (f) for an existing port authority within 36 months after the day on which this section comes into force or for a new port authority within 36 months after the day on which its letters patent are issued, the Minister must cause a report stating the reasons that no regulations have been made and establishing a schedule for making regulations to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first 10 days on which that House is sitting after the expiry of that 36-month period.
Further, proposed new subsection (1.3) states:
If no regulations are made within 12 months after the tabling of the report referred to in subsection (1.2), the Minister must cause a report stating the reasons that no regulations have been made and establishing a schedule for making regulations to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first 10 days on which that House is sitting after the expiry of that 12-month period and at least once every subsequent 12-month period as long as no regulations have been made.
This is an accountability measure. It's to serve as a backstop in the case that no regulations are made within the stipulated time frame. Otherwise, I think it should be fairly self-explanatory, if somewhat lengthy.