I'm not sure if it's practice or not, Mr. Chair, but I'm wondering if we can send some sort of message of thanks. This act has been in the works now for about five years. An awful lot of officials across the federal government have worked on it in the justice department and in Environment Canada, and there are all the affected statutes, all the affected officials. It goes back some time now, and I'm not sure if a generalized expression of thanks or a collective thank you could be given to all the staff--hundreds, probably--who worked on this bill in the past 16 months or so.
On May 7th, 2009. See this statement in context.