Industry committee  —but there were consultations that took place before the bill was ever introduced, I guess you would say at the ministerial level, and we did consultations in a variety of different communities. Non-profit organizations in those communities came to be heard at those meetings, so it was a very different type of consultation process.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  What we would like to see is that the non-profit corporation itself can decide what the various classes of membership should be and which of those classes should be entitled to a vote.

Industry committee  In terms of what?

Industry committee  Actually, Susan says it's slightly more complicated than that.

Industry committee  I think the title may be misleading there.

Industry committee  I'll let Susan handle that one. She's more familiar with the Bar Association.

Industry committee  Yes. Imagine Canada did.

Industry committee  We put together the task force, yes.

Industry committee  It's been around for a while. Its membership has changed. This task force, or a version of it, also commented on the Ontario not-for-profit corporations legislation as well. I don't know whether you're aware of the process that took place with that legislation—

Industry committee  If I had to have a classification system, what would I prefer? I think Imagine Canada has been consistent in saying that we don't think there should be a classification system at all. From my recollection of the process in Ontario, for which extensive consultations were done, they laid out a variety of options.

Industry committee  In the Ontario act? Well, I think it was kind of the same reasons that we made the same recommendation here. We really believe the complexity of the non-profit sector is too large for one act, which perhaps only gets changed every 50 or 100 years, to really take into consideration.

Industry committee  I'll let Susan answer that one. Susan was a member of our committee.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chong and members of the committee. I am here today presenting the submission that was actually written by the National Nonprofit Sector Task Force on the Modernization of Federal Not-for-Profit Corporations Law, which is a task force of representatives of the non-profit sector and various professionals, lawyers, etc., with expertise on non-profit law who came together to prepare this brief to the committee.