Mr. Speaker, with the consent of the House, I will be dividing my time with the Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board.
Today I rise to speak to Bill S-2, a bill that comes to us from the Senate, which is seeking to amend the Statutory Instruments Act and consequential amendments to the Statutory Instruments Regulations.
In many ways, we have a bill before the House today that is technical in its name and technical in its nature and really can be looked at as the plumbing required in the legislative and regulatory regime. I am going to speak to that briefly today.
In many ways the bill--