As it turns out, this is more, I suppose, of a theoretical than a real question. We raised it in our initial consultation paper, Mr. Chairman, that we distributed this summer. We found that the majority of respondents--we had 62 responses, I believe--were not really interested in this issue or really didn't have much to say about it. I think there hasn't been much testimony about it before this committee. So we're saying at the moment this is not an issue that we would advise this committee to pursue, given the importance of some of the other issues. It's a question we'll continue to ask ourselves on a case-by-case basis: was there a valid consent, given the context in individual cases?
On February 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.