Hedging to assist small business can be done by an agency of the government, because we have a terrible problem with small manufacturers being done in by the wild fluctuation in the dollar.
Professor Goldring, I really agree with your point on the “Don't ask, don't tell” policy. I wish the parliamentary secretary were here. He'd love to hear that.
On the other situation, where a young woman was sexually assaulted, she came out of the shadows to report it and then the bureaucracy was going to deport her. But because of the actions of a number of ministers in the Conservative government--and I don't praise the Conservatives often, but I will in this case--we were able to stop that.
That is very important, because from a public policy perspective we don't want hundreds of thousands of people with precarious status not reporting crimes; that would be terrible. It also underlines the need for political decision-making rather than bureaucratic. The bureaucrats were the ones who made the decision to deport her, but because of political interference they saw the public policy goal and did the right thing.