I just want to comment that when I started on this odyssey for reform, I knew it would be difficult. I was one of the originals who participated in the drafting of the original legislation back in the late seventies and early eighties, and I knew how difficult it was then to get the legislation through. So when I set out to try to get useful reform to it, I recognized that it would not be an easy proposition. It has not been. But I'm hopeful that the committee will look at the amendments that we have suggested to reform the access to information sections of this act. I think if you do that, you will strengthen the act; you'll provide more openness to those groups coming in for the first time; you'll be able to find an analogous situation for every one of those, that's already under the act, so that there's really no problem in terms of amending the act in an intelligent, sensible way.
I'm prepared to take my chances in the other committee because that's been a decision made by the government. I think we should proceed on that route. But I would like to see those amendments that I have suggested incorporated into Bill C-2.