First of all, I want to acknowledge that Anthony was the chair of the justice committee in which we did that report. I worked with Anthony for four years on that committee. It's good to see you back.
As was mentioned, we saw that both Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper cancelled it. I think it's sometimes a case of mistaken priorities. If people think of it as “why should we pay to have people sue us?”, then it's a problem. If we think of it as “why should we pay to support, to advance and to strengthen our democracy?”, then it's not an issue.
It's to make it less of a whim: “Why should we pay for people to sue us? Let's just cancel it.” Make it something that has to be more deliberative. It has to go before the House to be argued and to be debated. It's not going to be a whimsical change; it's going to be a deliberate and a much more difficult thing to change.
As Mr. Housefather mentioned, I think this is a fundamentally important aspect of our democracy. We have to do whatever we can to strengthen it, to maintain it, and when and wherever it's possible, to expand it.