Thank you.
I just want to be clear: That was certainly not my intention. With regard to the original amendment that was put in, the exceptions did not require any kind of checklist, and the exceptions are very large. After meeting and talking to many animal rights organizations and organizations that are doing research on non-animal testing, my intent here was to put the onus on the minister to ensure that the minister would support and look at all of these new techniques and ways that are being utilized to do research without using animals. I met with numerous people who are doing amazing things, and there's just not the support of the use of animal testing.
As was said, we don't control all animal testing, but certainly I felt that what the minister engages for research should be trying to look at all of the non-animal testing options that are out there, that are commercially available, even if they're not widely used. That was the intent. I felt that the original exceptions in here were so large that.... It was basically the same thing, except saying now that we want the minister to go out and look for these other alternatives before using animal testing. That was the idea.