Well, I think it's important, Mr. Moore, because if the Prime Minister were required to use the consultation process and were then required by statute to give effect to the outcome, I think we would have a very strong argument--along the lines of Mr. Paquette's point--that Parliament was doing indirectly what it couldn't do directly.
I don't think it's conclusive. I agree with my colleague that there would still be some doubt, but it is to move the statute into the truly safe constitutional area that those two points of discretion have been left.