Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the very thoughtful, balanced and wonderful position that he put forward on Bill C-31. He mentioned that he had suggested a fingerprint-photo ID with respect to the policy we are now developing for immigration but that the bureaucrats decided that it would best be done through regulation as opposed to legislation. For my purposes, it is always better to have it in legislation so that legislative rule is in place for people to work with that type of photo-fingerprint ID.
Can my hon. colleague tell me why it is that the bureaucrats are so insistent that it be in regulation as opposed to legislation, such as Bill C-31?