Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to make a note that I am not a member of the Standing Committee on Government Operations, but I did participate in some of the review and I appreciate that opportunity. I had occasion to make a number of comments and have the committee consider those. I particularly appreciate the chair’s willingness to consider a couple of suggestions for motions.
One of the things we’ve heard a lot from the public on various bills, but I would say particularly this one and another one before the House, is a desire to have some input to the regulations and this is not right now a standard operating procedure for committees to have regulations, which are typically developed well after the bills, come back to the committee for consideration, but in this case committee did support that suggestion. The public had mentioned a number of times materials that were provided during the public hearings and I believe included in the report in a couple of the recommendations. So I think the other aspect of that was the annual report. I believe we do have a mechanism through rules and procedures to actually implement a mechanism where annual reports are brought before committee for discussion. I think that happens in some of the Auditor General reports and Language Commissioner reports and so on. So I was particularly appreciative of committee putting forward a motion for that to be done in the case of the Heritage Act. So that’s all I had, Mr. Chair, I just wanted to make those two comments on the committee report. Mahsi.