Minister Toews, you've said to more than one member of the committee that if we're serious, we're free to adopt the Information Commissioner's package as a bill, if we're comfortable with the 15 points that you've raised. What you don't say is, where do we go from there? We can't introduce that bill into the House, even if we were perfectly satisfied with every clause in it, or even if we changed 15 clauses and were then satisfied with it. You're the only one who can stand up in the House and introduce it, because there's a money matter associated with it. We can't even do it as a private member's bill, because I presume some of those costs that you itemized would be deemed to be a money bill; it would need a royal recommendation.
It's not quite fair to say that you've given us everything we need to have a bill. We don't. We have Mr. Reid's ideas that he thinks would form a good bill. I have a private member's bill that John Bryden drafted; he spent 10 years anguishing over that bill. He had an all-party task force of MPs.