Mr. Speaker, when I first looked at this legislation, in light of what I have seen happen in the area of immigration with the use of regulation and pronouncements from the minister, my first gut reaction was “no way”. No way, José. I was not going to go there.
Then when I began to think a bit, I thought that for some very specific and very tightly controlled areas it might make sense, but it would have to be very tightly controlled.
However, we have a government whose members on the one hand talk about law and order and on the other hand want Canadians just to trust them. This legislation is not very clear about the kind of transparency and about the kind of information that would be available to Canadians when they look at the regulations. Would they have access to the original documents? Would they be able to work their way through the history of it all, and would the information be there in bilingual form?