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Misguided? Yes. We considered very seriously taking action against the government on the breach of the ACE agreement. For reasons that would be too long to explain, we decided not to because it would seem to be a political move against the government, and most members of the committee decided that it would not be wise to sue the government on the breach of the ACE agreement.
A draft of the action was prepared, but we chose not to proceed with it. We chose to continue the negotiations with the government, with Minister Bev Oda, with Minister Kenney, only to be insulted, only to be put aside when they came up with this program, which had never been discussed, had never been approved by anyone, with people on this consultative committee. I have to mention, one of the members of this committee is a professor. He was here, I believe, on Thursday. This particular professor Roberto Perin wrote a book called Enemies Within. For him, these people who were arrested were enemies of Canada, and he suggests they were all fascists and perhaps they deserved the treatment they received. This is the person who is being placed on such a committee? That's a double insult to the Italian community.