Mr. Speaker, without regulations, a law is worth about as much as yesterday's newspaper.
It takes a lot of brain power and many of our best public servants to draft coherent regulations that will pass legal and other tests.
When the government starts taking resources away from its departments, would it not be tempted to look for shortcuts? For example, it may be tempted to borrow existing regulations from neighbouring or foreign jurisdictions, private interest groups or associations.
One day we could have ocean carriers providing regulations for naval safety. What does my colleague think about that?