Yes. What's happened since the charter came in, actually the equality section in 1985 and the charter in 1982, is that the court has taken more and more authority and widened its jurisdiction. It was never intended to be what it has turned out to be, and it's usurping the role of Parliament.
Parliament was to represent and reflect the views of the people. You have nine appointed people on the Supreme Court of Canada who are..... I can tell you about the Schachter case, for example. I can give you a whole bunch of cases that indicate the court has accrued to itself far more jurisdiction than the wording of the charter actually conveyed to them.
I think we are threatened as a democracy, that all these very profound issues are being decided according to--I'm afraid to say it, but I'll say it--the ideology and the philosophy of nine appointed individuals, when it should be for Parliament to speak. Parliament is set up to speak for people. It has the access to the research, I've said before. It has access to all the social facts, which is never available to the court. Also, Parliament can make—