Let me get back to fixing it, but I want to say that I'm absolutely shocked that the Minister of Justice would get up in the House and quote your report as a means of shrugging it off, saying we can change this if it's unconstitutional, while at the same time refusing.... His parliamentary secretary is here today and could have said so, but didn't either. You, the government, could have proved that they have a constitutional opinion that disagrees with Mr. Walsh's. We haven't got that opinion, and I think the intention of the government, from the cavalier attitude of both the parliamentary secretary and the Minister of Justice in the House today, is to put this legislation over parliamentary privileges.
I take you to page 10--I think the numbers are off--and the third-last paragraph of your brief. Let's be clear. You would accept a request for an amendment put by a member, but I think you'd want some direction as to whether they want you to do A or B, and you put A or B in the third-last paragraph. You're saying that if we want the parliamentary privileges, which I take it haven't really been touched since 1868, to be subject to the conflict of interest code, you've set out the proposed amendment; if not, you've set out the other amendment.
I think it's imperative for this committee or for a member of the committee supporting the subjugation of parliamentary privileges to the new Conflict of Interest Act--which doesn't happen every day--to ask for that. It may be the debate of the committee. I think we have to have one or the other. The reference you made in your previous answer was that to have the secret ballot remain, however--if it is to remain--might require an amendment to the Constitution. That's a little more than an hour and a half clause-by-clause procedure, if I remember. Amending the Constitution--our attempts to do that are not met with great success in this country, but we're willing to do it here if we want to keep the secret ballot. Is that right?