Thanks, Mr. Chair. That is my understanding of 10(6), that really the Minister can exercise a lot of discretion in deciding whether to accept an area or not for nomination. The Minister, under the act, though, also has a lot of discretion in accepting whether an area that has been nominated gets into the candidate phase and is actually formally established as a protected area. The Minister also has discretion about changing the boundaries of a protected area or even deregistering it, basically, doing away with a protected area. Those are found in other sections of the act. I am just concerned that the Minister has a lot of discretion under 10(6), and as I understood it, this was really sort of to be a conformity check to get it into the candidate process, where there could be full public debate and discussion.

I think I have made my points, Mr. Chair. If I can, can I move on to proposed motions to amend the bill at this point?