Mr. Speaker, the government is asking us to trust its good faith, but it is not even prepared to provide a better framework to monitor the power of the Minister of National Defence to decide alone the establishment of military zones. This is contradictory, to say the least.
If the government is not prepared to act and to provide better guidelines in this bill, is it not because the scope of the bill is much broader than suggested and because the Minister of National Defence has total discretion to determine the size of the military zones he may wish to establish?
Nowhere is there any mention that it can only be a small zone. The minister has full latitude to determine the zone that he deems necessary and reasonable. He is the only one to hold that power.