Generally speaking, I think the consequences for us as Canadians would be to endure a tremendous blow to a very principled approach to the very thing you might applaud Valéry for, in recognizing what is the greatness of a government. I've given some thought to this. I'm really trying to think of other ways to understand and appreciate it. I think we often don't get things right, and this is one thing we have got right; that is, despite our impulses and inclinations and those of the majority, we make these kinds of commitments to minorities, despite these costs, because we're committed to an affirmation of diversity and a celebration of equality.
When you remove the means we have to achieve that, we're really just exercising a blow to those commitments, principles, and values. And there is a human cost to that, which is that those who are most disadvantaged cannot actually pursue equality claims. It's to the disadvantaged I think that we need to have the principled commitment.