Not only is it a direct legislative breach, but it allows discretion to a subordinate body — not to the legislators, but to a subordinate administrative body or executive body — to override constitutional rights which, according to section 52 of the Constitution, are supreme.

For everyone’s benefit, I would first like to review what the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions will do; it will: recognize in international law the distinctive nature of cultural goods and services as vehicles of values, identity and meaning; clearly affirm of the right of countries to have cultural policies to ensure genuine diversity of cultural expressions domestically; include provisions by which developed countries undertake to support developing countries in nurturing the development of their own emerging cultural industries; assert the principle of non-subordination—meaning the legal status of the convention in international law will be equal to that of other international treati ...[+++]es, including trade agreements; commit countries to take the provisions of the convention into account not only when entering into other international agreements, but also when applying and interpreting agreements to which they are party; and include a basic dispute settlement mechanism, creating the potential that in the years ahead the convention will accumulate a body of written decisions on issues of cultural policy that will ultimately influence how culture is treated in trade agreements.

That a distinction was made between these two bodies of subordinate law is entirely a consequence of the choice made in 1986 to implement the new disallowance procedure by means of amendments to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.

These two bodies of subordinate law are entirely a consequence of the choice made in 1986 by means of amending the standing orders of the House.

It is well known that the principle is that the Senate and the House of Commons, as with the cabinet, are coordinate institutions of the Constitution; the Senate is not a subordinate body to the House of Commons, to the government or to the cabinet.

In relation to posts in State ministries, regional government authorities, local authorities, central banks and other public bodies, which deal with the preparation of legal acts, their implementation, monitoring their application and the supervision of subordinate bodies, the Commission takes a stricter approach than it did in 1988.