Mr. Chair, I haven't spoken much during this debate because I felt that the government wanted to take on the fundamental goal of all legislation, which is to educate and provide a morality and values to the population as a whole. Even the legislation that prohibits theft is not made first with courts in mind. Legislation is made to tell people that they must not steal and that there will be consequences if they do.
At all stages of this bill, we have been told about what might happen in court and only about that. The statements are unbalanced. Rather than talk about the consequences of this bill on the entire population, we talked about the impact on Canada's legal apparatus. The discussions have focused only on that.
This is why I stepped out of the debate. I am not a lawyer and I do not understand the bill that way. I find it unfortunate that, for a government bill, the government absolutely wants to take away the citizens' right to speak and be the only entity to have a say. The debate is focused only on the legal aspect. I deplore working like this in committee.