Part of the reasoning was the original list that's in there. When you look at the exceptions that are there, they are so broad that it's really just more illustrating. I felt that putting in a positive obligation was more effective or would help more with advancing the field than listing this, because when you look under the exceptions under that list that was part of the original amendment from the Senate, they do not apply if “it is not reasonably possible”. That terminology, “reasonably possible”, was not supported by the animal rights groups. “Reasonably possible” was seen as too broad an exception, basically, to actually give this any teeth. The whole of that proposed subsection 68.1(2) was seen as very.... They preferred the positive obligation with the language that I put forward. I suppose that's the best way to say it.
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