Exactly, a meaningless amendment.
The senator went on:
A number of intervenors who were concerned seemed to be comfortable that adding that word would bring the wording within the normal concept of expropriation.
The people to whom we have talked, the people who made interventions to the Senate and to our committee, in no way believe that is satisfactory or addresses the problem. He went on to say:
The second amendment is to subclause 28(5). At lines 42 and 43, the amendment would remove the phrase “shall take into account the rules set out in the Expropriation Act” and would replace it with “shall apply the rules set out in the Expropriation Act”.
We would agree that this amendment is strengthening the bill. It is one small step. For my hon. colleagues who may not understand what this means because they are not familiar with it—