The agreement, and the procedures it has caused CGSB to
impose upon the drafting committee's working group, violate all three of the foundation principles of the process of «
voluntary standardization,» created by the Standards Council of Canada Act (s. 4), and the Council's CAN - P - 1:2012 text,
Program Requirements for the Accreditation of Standards Development Organizations and for the Approval of National Standards of Canada, which is treated as having the authority of a regulation created by way of the Act.